Great Journey 🏍 Day 366
"Love is in the air!"
Sighnaghi. The city of love. We have to go there, of course.
What we don't understand until the end: why it is the city of love. We can neither discover couples holding hands nor typical romantic places.
We learn about a 24/7 registry office with an instant marriage option. (The divorce option is now online, only imfau...) We don't see any bridal couples, not much going on in the marriage frenzy at the moment. We stroll through the spruced-up town of 1500 inhabitants, meet a few tourists (as we are), climb the town wall and some towers, stroll back and are done.
Sighnaghi was only a fortress many centuries ago. Then it lost its importance a few times, regained it a few times, depending on the conqueror and the liberator.
From 2005 to 2006, the town was then restored with funds from international investors, called the "Reconstruction Programme".
Meanwhile, the plaster is crumbling again, and as soon as we leave the main street, we see the original state of the town. Rather old, or as a friend wrote the other day: very rustic. Our guidebook says: "But if you don't leave the tourist trails, you can completely surrender to the dream of the medieval idyll.
The view of the Caucasus Mountains from Sighnaghi is truly fantastic. On a clear day, we can see as far as Kazbeg, the snow-covered 5000-metre peak that we already admired in Kazbegi. We also find one or two nice wine bars that exude a cosy charm, presumably serve wine and let us enjoy the day with the best homemade compost (juice with fruit!).
So we are dependent on ourselves in the city of love. But that, as we have noticed in the last few years, works very well.
#Stownoflove #Sighnaghi
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