The Royal Palace in Geghuti, the Palace of the Kings of United Georgia, the royal residence of Geghuti

On the territory of the Imereti lowland, on the right bank of the Rioni, in the vicinity of the village of Geghuti (Tskaltuba municipality) there is a unique example of Georgian secular architecture of the Renaissance, the palace of the kings of united Georgia. In different periods, the Gegut Royal Palace was the royal residence of David IV Agmashenebeli, George III, Queen Tamara. To this day, the preserved building is subsidized by the XII century, but it is known for certain that in the VIII century there was a royal hunting house, around which the royal palace complex was later built. The double was repeatedly damaged. The Turks especially damaged it in 1510-1691, and in the 30s of the XIX century, the local population used bricks from the palace walls as a building material. This caused irreparable damage to the palace - the construction of the palace was completely deformed. The reconstruction of the palace in its original form became possible only in 1953-1956 as a result of restoration and restoration work.

Even in ruins, the palace makes an impression - a square-shaped fence frames the territory with an area of about 2,000 m2. In the center of the complex, on a three-meter plinth of hewn stone, a magnificent brick four—tiered palace—castle is built, which is crowned with a dome (diameter - 14 meters, height - 20 meters). There were living and utility rooms around the palace (a bedroom, a coin room, a treasury, a bathhouse, etc.). The walls in the palace were lined, and in its upper part were decorated with stucco and paintings. Massive columns extended from the walls adjoin the entire structure from the outside. To the east of the palace there is an outbuilding and a church, which was built in the XIII-XIV centuries

Currently, the monument is undergoing conservation work, and its territory is being studied by archaeologists and researchers.