Amilakhvari castle

The Amilakhvari castle (Georgian: ამილახვართა ციხე-დარბაზები) is an architectural monument located at the village of Kvemo Chala, in Kaspi, Georgia.

The monument is a large complex, built in the 17th–18th century, which originally contained three castles and various buildings in each of them, and belonged to a Georgian noble family of Amilakhvari.

[1] The castle, built during the 17th century by the family of nobles Amilakhvari, was north of a larger complex that has now almost completely disappeared.

Indeed, Kvemo Chala originally had three rather different castles: the main one in the western part of the village, and two smaller in the eastern.

The church inside of the main castle, according to the writing on its eastern facade, was built in the last third of the 17th century by aznauri Papuna Karumidze.

A small hall church in the southern part of the castle has a writing, saying that it was built in 1775 by Amilakhori Amirindo, the son of Avtandil.

The typical 18th century Eastern Georgian sauna has a complex interior, each room having a dome and windows in the vaults.

Entrance to the church inside the castle