Natural Monuments
Georgia is rich in monuments of nature, the most popular of which for
tourist are included in tourist programs: Sataplia and Dmanisi. Sataplia is
located in 9 km to the north-west of Kutaisi in a reserved zone, where on a 354
hectare area there are well-preserved natural floristic complex, rich in
plantations of Colkhetian box-trees and chestnut. Here there are also limestone
caves, footprints of dinosaurs, located on a 300-m height above sea level. In
Dmanisi, 60-km to the south of Tbilisi on the territory of a medieval town
there were found two skulls of human beings dated 1.7 million years. With this
discovery the antiquity of a man's origin was increased two times on the
European continent. Finding of the first European in Dmanisi gives evidence
that Georgia was located on a crossroads of migration routes and a man from
Africa got to Europe exactly via Georgia. After this discovery it is without
any doubt that Georgia is a motherland of the first European.