Another point of interest in Georgia is Chiatura, a small town nestled between steep valleys and deep gorges.
Chiatura was founded in the late 1800’s as a mining colony. In 1954 the Stalinist government installed a system of cable cars, also referred to as a “rope road” to get the workers more quickly to the mines, instead of them walking to the sites on the steep cliffs.
Every corner of the town was connected with the mines through these cable cars and Chiatura became known as “the cable car city”.
