Pshav Khevsureti

Pshav Khevsureti

Georgia, Great Caucasus: best places to visit and must see. Wild mountains, tracks, tourist attractions.

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Customs and traditions

Customs and traditions 

Military education and training of Khevsurs

“Fortunately, there had been a person in Georgia, who in the middle of the XX century did wide and profound

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Pshav Khevsureti: Georgia, Tbilisi, Great Caucasus. Best places to visit. All you need for travelling in mountines, tourist attractions. Must see. Pictures, videos, stories.
Customs and traditions 

Weapons and Arms

Weapons and arms had high importance in Pshav-Khevsureti. Arms included rifles, pistols, swords, daggers, spears, whips, spiked rings, shields, coats

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Local Handicrafts and Clothes

Handcraftsmanship is a long-lasting tradition in the remote mountainous villages of Pshav-Khevsureti. Mastering fancywork was the duty of highlander women.

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Pshav Khevsureti: Georgia, Tbilisi, Great Caucasus. Best places to visit. All you need for travelling in mountines, tourist attractions. Must see. Pictures, videos, stories.
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Legends and Stories

Pshavi residents believed in the existence of apudzis gveli (a home guardian snake) that was constantly around the house. The

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Pshav Khevsureti: Georgia, Tbilisi, Great Caucasus. Best places to visit. All you need for travelling in mountines, tourist attractions. Must see. Pictures, videos, stories.
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Khevsur Akimni/Medicine

Especially renowned were the Khevsur akimni, who were witch doctors that could perform the most complicated operations, including trepanation of

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Stsorproba, Wedding and Upbringing of Children

THE PSHAV TSATSLOBA AND KHEVSUR STSORPROBA The Pshav tsatsloba and Khevsur stsorproba is a unique tradition that was practiced until

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Pshav Khevsureti: Georgia, Tbilisi, Great Caucasus. Best places to visit. All you need for travelling in mountines, tourist attractions. Must see. Pictures, videos, stories.
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Funerary and Mourning Rites

For ages, funerary and mourning rites were given much importance in Pshav-Khevsureti. One of the most pronounced signs of respect

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Pshav Khevsureti: Georgia, Tbilisi, Great Caucasus. Best places to visit. All you need for travelling in mountines, tourist attractions. Must see. Pictures, videos, stories.
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Religion

Pagan beliefs are still strongly present in the rituals and traditions of highlanders. Their shrine is called a khati (which

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Pshav Khevsureti: Georgia, Tbilisi, Great Caucasus. Best places to visit. All you need for travelling in mountines, tourist attractions. Must see. Pictures, videos, stories.
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Local Vernacular and Folk Poetry

The rich diverse folk poetry of Pshavi and Khevsureti truly captures and presents their simple and beautiful way of life.

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History and culture 

Sacred Places

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Ethnography and Cultural Heritage

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Folk Holidays

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Cuisine

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About

Pshav – Khevsureti is one of the most beautiful mountain regions in the Great Caucasus. The region has a very diverse ecosystem – subalpine forests, velvety meadows, rocky mountains and river gorges. Besides the nature beauties it offers to the visitor also medieval fortresses like Shatili of Mutso, abandoned villages like Lebaiskari or Guro as well as inhabited ones, where you can still see and admire the traditional way of living of the inhabitants. Pshav – Khevsureti has a very rich ethnographical and cultural past as well as presence. This web page describes all above mentioned areas and gives a guidance to all tourists as well as Pshav – Khevsureti admirers during their travels or study. Enjoy being in Pshav – Khevsureti!

Ivana Bursíková

If not specified otherwise, the texts were provided by World Wide fund of Nature′s Tbilisi office and prepared in cooperation with Agency of Protected Areas of Georgia and Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund.

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