Signagi City, call the city of love with espetaculares views on the Caucasus and surrounded by a wall (they say) is the second largest in the world after the Great Wall of China. The examples of Paleolithic tools, shows that people living in the territory of the modern city and the surrounding land since ancient times.
Next, Bodb Monastery, where he is buried St. Nino, the critianizadora of Georgia. Be given a sit-down cross, made of branches and its own queue. This cross can be seen everywhere in the country. 
In 1924 the Soviet government closed the monastery and became a hospital. In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the monastery was Bodb resumed in a convent until today. In this journey that we, as the culmination of David Gareja Monastery, one of the holiest places in Georgia, a monastery carved into the desert rock Udabno, the V-XI centuries, currently inhabited by monks and attributed to David Pope, one of thirteen scholars who came from Syria in the sixth century.
Part of the complex, is located in Azerbaijan and therefore has become the subject of a border dispute between Azerbaijan and the authorities of Georgia.Los monks say they "see a conflict as a result of Soviet plots to undermine the relations between Christian Georgians and Muslim Azeris. 
In the years of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the territory of the monastery was used as a training ground for the Soviet military. After the restoration of Georgia's independence in 1991, David Gareja monastic life was revived.
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