Visitors to Mtskheta will quickly see why this city is sometimes called the city-museum. With its towering monuments, quaint cobblestone streets, and idyllic charm, it’s easy to see why Mtskheta is one of the most popular tourist destinations of Georgia.
According to legend, Mtskheta was founded in the 1st millennium by the ethnarch Mtskhetos, King Parnavaz, the great reformer king, proclaimed it as the capital of Kartli Kingdom (otherwise known as Iberia) in the 4th century BCE. Going even further back, archaeological digs have unearthed the evidence of human activity in the area as far back as the 3rd and 2nd millennium.