Mestia and Chalaadi: a base for understanding Upper Svaneti
Two days in Mestia let you combine manuscripts, Svan towers and a hike to Chalaadi Glacier before deciding whether to continue to Ushguli.
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Upper Svaneti is an inhabited cultural landscape described through its villages, tower houses and churches. Chazhashi, within the Ushguli community, is the component included in the World Heritage property.
The place
What makes it special
- Villages with tower houses woven into everyday life.
- Chazhashi’s churches and traditional settlement layout.
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- Georgia · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q1428
- Georgia · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q230
- Georgia · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q378694
- Georgia · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q17317566
- Georgia · Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · Wikidata · Q37478625
- Georgia · World Countries — mledoze · ODbL 1.0 · World countries dataset by mledoze and contributors · ODbL 1.0
- Georgia · World Bank Open Data · CC BY 4.0 · World Bank
- Georgia · DBpedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · DBpedia
- Ushguli · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Ushguli, Mestia Municipality, Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti, 3200, Georgia · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Ushguli, Mestia Municipality, Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti, 3200, Georgia · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Chazhashi · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
- Chazhashi, Ushguli, Mestia Municipality, Samegrelo-Upper Svaneti, 3200, Georgia · OpenStreetMap · ODbL 1.0; atribución y obligación de compartir bases derivadas. · Fuente: OpenStreetMap
- Upper Svaneti · GeoNames · Datos geográficos bajo CC BY 4.0; requiere atribución a GeoNames. · Fuente: GeoNames
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Profile updated: 12/10/2026