It’s one of the many lasting traditions of Svaneti, a remote region spread across an expanse of snow-clad peaks and spruce-covered gorges in Georgia’s highlands. Linked together by a series of ...

These are the old ways of hospitality, once sacrosanct in Georgia’s highland region of Svaneti. Her sun-dappled garden is shaded by a massive walnut tree and several stately stone towers – across ...

Advertisement The tower homes in Georgia’s northwestern province of Svaneti were at the same time familial living quarters, fortresses of defense, and personal treasuries. They offered ...

I'm reaching the end of my first day trekking through Georgia's Svaneti region when I see it. Walking over the last rise of the day, there on the wall of a crumbling ruin, sits a crown made from ...