Kharagauli is an administrative center in Georgia situated along the Chkherimela river at an elevation of 280-400 meters above sea level. It was founded in the 1870s as a railway station and took on administrative and economic roles. Some of its notable features include natural shelters and caves from the Upper Paleolithic era, giant statues along the river banks, and ruins of medieval fortresses nearby including where King Vakhtang VI was married. The area has a long history of settlement dating back to the 14th-11th centuries BC and once had churches that are now in ruins.

1. Georgia-kharagauli
Old Kharagauli

2.  is an administrative center of Kharagauli district in Georgia. It is situated on both
banks of Chkherimela river in a narrow and deep gorge, 280-400m above the sea
level. It was founded as a railway station in the 1870s, when Poti-Tbilisi permanent
way was built. So kharagauli assumed an administrative, later-an economic function.
The most beautiful is its west entrance. In kandeshi rock beautiful and narrow gorge
the river Chkherimena flows. The most attractive for foreigners are two big holes on
the right bank of the river. Here a primitive man's upper Paleolithic era man's natural
shelter is, called "the giant's hole". A bit aloof, on the left bank, there are giants
statues, so the place is called "the giants" due to those beautiful holes. Near the
place, up the Chkherimela river gorge there is an old fortress ruins. It is a typical
construction of the Middle Ages, mentioned sometimes as Khandi, or kharagauli
fortress.
 It was in Kharagauli fortress that the king Vakhtang VI got married.
 There is a district called "small kharagauli" there, people settled here first, later - on
the borough territory. On its mountain there are tombs of 14th - 11th centuries BC.
There was a Jesus church, a basilica construction on the cemetery territory, now it is
ruined.
 Beautiful nature, pleasant people, hospitality tradition become muse for many
foreigners. The Georgian "king of poets" Galaction Tabidze dedicated a poem to
Kharagauli.
Kharagauli

3. Housing in the
Upper Paleolithic. Is
dated by 35
thousand years ago.
Davis hole caves
in Kharagauli

4. Chkheri castle Vakhani castle

5. Railway Bridge(1886-1890)

6. Nunisi monastery(IX-X
centuries) Ubisi monastery(Ixcentury)

7. House in kharagauli

8. Residential Building (1945) Railway tunnel(1886-1890)