In the village of Geguti, in Tskaltubo there is a palace of the same name, a monument of Georgian architecture of the early Middle Ages.

The first building is considered to be a simple one-room building dating from the 8th-9th centuries:

The earliest building is considered to be an ordinary building with a fireplace, consisting of one room, approximately of the 8th or 9th century.

The main building of the royal residence was erected later, during the reign of King George III (1156-1184).

Most of the other buildings were built presumably in the 12th century, the period when a written mention of Geghuti appears in Kartlis Tskhovreba (a collection of medieval Georgian chronicles) for the first time.

Later, already in the 13-14th century, a temple and a number of outbuildings were added to the western side of the palace.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the only medieval palace of its kind was almost completely turned into ruins.

The earliest mention of the palace dates back to the 8th century in Juansher's "Life of Vakhtangia Gorgasali", in one of the lines of this work, the Kartli feudal Arcil said: "I will go and fortify myself in the fortress of Geghiti and Kutaisi."

The first researcher of Geghut palace was the Swiss traveler Debois de Monpere who in 1833 has developed a plan to preserve and restore the rest of the landmark. In 1937, renowned professors, architects and photographers began to study the Geguti. During the excavations about 60 artifacts were discovered (they are protected in one of the museums of Georgia).

In 1954-1962 the ruins of the palace were cleared and restoration work was carried out.

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