The most beautiful sights in Tbilisi. Places that are worth visiting in the first place. Mtatsminda Mountain and the Temple of David.

Mtatsminda Mountain offers a view of the whole of Tbilisi. There are several viewing platforms for viewing the panorama of the city. From here you can see the Caucasian Ridge, Kazbek, the Saguramo-Ialno ridge and the Ior Plateau, the Kypa River and the Tbilisi Sea. It is possible to climb Mtatsminda by means of several vehicles, among which the funicular and the cable car are particularly popular.

Mtatsminda currently has the largest recreation park in Georgia. There is also a TV tower here.

Mtatsminda towers over Tbilisi from its western side, and the height of the mountain above sea level is 727 meters, and 330 meters above the Kura embankment. In the middle of the mountain, on one of its slopes, there is the Church of St. David and the pantheon of Georgian writers and public figures. The name of the mountain - Mama-Daviti, as well as the name of the church, is associated with the activities of one of the thirteen Syrian fathers-David of Gareja. In the middle of the VI century, he built a small chapel and cell here. During the Persian invasions, adherents of Zoroastrianism expelled Father David from the city. In the IX century, the Church of the Iverian Mother of God was built here. Therefore, Mount Mama-Daviti received a second name - Mtatsminda (Holy Mountain). Over the years, the church has been damaged. In 1810, on behalf of the Catholicos-Patriarch Anton II, Kashvet priest Thomas Grigoriev built the Church of the Transfiguration with donations from Tbilisi residents. In 1859, the son of Thomas Grigoriev, Joseph, again, thanks to the financial assistance of the population, began to build a new, larger cathedral named after St. David of Gareja. Construction was completed only in 1877. In 1889, the walls of the cathedral were painted. The dimensions of today's cathedral: height (together with the cross) 25.7 meters, length - 17.2 m, width - 10.7 m.

In 1929, a pantheon of Georgian writers and public figures was established in the courtyard of the cathedral, where the greatest sons of Georgia are buried, including: Ilya Chavchavadze, Akaki Tsereteli, Vazha Pshavela, Galaktion Tabidze, the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia. The pantheon also contains: the famous Russian writer and playwright Alexander Griboyedov, the mother of Joseph Stalin.