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Attraction · Georgia, Georgia

Svaneti's Defensive Towers

Centuries-old stone tower houses dot the villages of Upper Svaneti, most famously in Ushguli — Europe's highest permanently inhabited settlement at 2,200 meters — built by local clans for defense and still standing watch beneath Mount Shkhara.

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