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A past that stretches to antiquity.
A culture that never became a museum.
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Living traditions, ancient stones
Where the past and present share a table
Georgia has weathered empires, invasions and the Soviet shadow — and answered with songs, script and stone that are still alive today. History here is not behind glass.
Cave cities and hilltop monasteries, polyphonic songs older than harmony itself, an alphabet that belongs to no other family, craftsmen still practicing what their great-grandparents did — with ethnologists among our founders, we don’t just show you culture, we introduce you to it.
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polyphonic singing heritage
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Within Culture & History
Four ways into the story
Listen
Polyphony & living traditions
Three voices, no conductor, a thousand years — hear Georgian polyphony where it belongs: in a church, at a table, from the people who inherited it.
Wander
Ancient stones
Cave monasteries, tower villages, frescoed churches on impossible ridges — from Mtskheta’s holy sites to Svaneti’s medieval skyline.
Make
Craft & hands-on workshops
Weave, dye, throw clay, hammer silver — beside artisans who welcome curious hands. Souvenirs mean more when you made them.
Decode
Layers of Tbilisi
Persian bathhouses, Art Nouveau balconies, Soviet mosaics, Brutalist giants and the street art answering them — one city, every century talking at once.
“Here, a twelfth-century church is not a monument. It’s where the village still sings on Sunday.”
— Living Roots
Journey inspirations
Cultural journeys to begin with
Stones & Songs
Monasteries, towers and the polyphony that fills them — Georgia’s deep culture route.
Svaneti with Living Roots
Highlands, memory and meaning — led by Ia Tabagari and Tamara Natenadze.
Tbilisi Layers
Every century of one stubborn, seductive city — with its artists, bakers and archivists.
Every journey can combine wine, food, wild and culture — tell us what fascinates you.
People & Places along the way
Who you’ll meet, where you’ll go
People
Ia Tabagari
Ethnologist, co-founder — three decades of reading Georgia’s cultural map. [bio to confirm]
Places
Svaneti
Towers, frescoes and Europe’s highest living heritage.
Places
Vardzia
The twelfth-century cave city of Queen Tamar, carved into the cliffs above the Mtkvari.
History, but alive.
Tell us which centuries call you — we’ll introduce you personally.