World heritage in Georgia

The world heritage in Georgia (as of 2017) includes three UNESCO world heritage sites , all of which are world cultural heritage sites. Georgia acceded to the World Heritage Convention in 1992, and the first two World Heritage sites were added to the World Heritage List in 1994. The last world heritage site to date was registered in 1996, and part of a world heritage site was deleted in 2017.

World heritage sites

Current world heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Georgia in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
Svetitskhoveli Cathedral	Historic churches of Mtskheta	1994	K	708	Historic churches and monasteries in Mtskheta , the former capital of Georgia, including Svetitskhoveli Cathedral ( Lage ), Jvari Monastery ( Lage ) and Samtavro Monastery ( Lage ).
	Mountain villages of Svaneti ( location )	1996	K	709	Villages of the Upper Svaneti region in the Upper Caucasus
	Gelati Monastery ( location )	1994	K	710	Monastery complex from the 12th century not far from the city of Kutaisi . Originally included in the World Heritage List together with the Bagrati Cathedral , which was removed from the World Heritage Site in 2017.

Former world heritage site

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image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery ( location )	1994-2017	K	710	1994 was Bagrati Cathedral , together with the also in Kutaisi lying monastery Gelati been inscribed on the World Heritage List (s. Archive ). Because the cathedral was reconstructed against the recommendation of ICOMOS, it was deleted from the World Heritage Site in 2017, only the Gelati Monastery remains.

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list . As of 2018, fifteen sites are entered in the tentative list of Georgia, the last entry was made in 2007. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year they were included in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Alaverdi monastery ( location )	2007	K	5221
(more pictures)	Ananuri ( location )	2007	K	5222
	Wetlands and Forests of Colchis	2007	N	5223
(more pictures)	Dawit Gareja monasteries and hermitage ( location )	2007	K	5224
	Hominin fossil site of Dmanissi	2007	K	5225	near the city of Dmanissi
(more pictures)	Church of the Archangels and the King's Tower in Gremi ( Lage )	2007	K	5226
(more pictures)	Church of Kwetera ( Lage )	2007	K	5227	Church in the Kwetera fortress
	Mta-Tusheti	2007	K	5228
	Nikorzminda Cathedral	2007	K	5229
	Samtavissi Cathedral	2007	K	5230
	Shatili	2007	K	5232
	Old town of Tbilisi	2007	K	5233
	Uplistsikhe cave city	2007	K	5234
	Wani	2007	K	5235
Vardsia	Vardsia - Khertvisi	2007	K	5236	includes the cave city of Vardsia ( Lage ) and the fortress Khertvisi ( Lage )

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Georgia  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Georgia on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georgia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 23, 2017 . 
2. ↑ German names according to the World Heritage List. In: www.unesco.de. German UNESCO Commission, accessed January 30, 2018 .  , if necessary with adaptation of the transcription
3. ↑ "... Committee Approves the significant boundary modification of Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery, Georgia to exclude Bagrati Cathedral"
4. ↑ Tentative List of Georgia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed July 23, 2017 . 

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