Tsageri

Tsageri (Georgian: ცაგერი, Cageri) is a town in Georgia, located in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti region in the west of the country and serving as an administrative center of the homonymous district.

Under the Russian Empire and early Soviet government, Tsageri functioned as an administrative center of the Lechkhumi Uyezd of the Kutaisi Governorate.

A local museum exhibits several thousands of archaeological artifacts unearthed in Lower Svaneti and Lechkhumi.

[3] In the vicinity of Tsageri, there are the ruins of the medieval fortress of Muris-Tsikhe which might have been the place of exile and death of the Christian theologian Maximus the Confessor (c. 580 – 662).

[4] The nearby located Khvamli caves, according to the medieval records, preserves the treasury of the kings of Georgia.