Our History

The history of creating tourstravelingeorgia.com  starts on may in 1989, when Zurab Sanikidze and Michael Lautanbach decided to bring a group of people to Georgia, who already knew about this country and had a desire to know more about its culture, ethnography, Georgian modern art and history.

First guests were people of art and cinematography field. They were from Freiburg, from Boni and from other cities of Germany. This group arrived in Georgia on October in 1989 and lived in their colleague families, who were working in different fields of culture. In particular, they were professionals in architecture designing, cinematography and painting.

German guests visited Georgian mountains – Kazbegi, Shatili; Sea shore – Batumi; Spaleological sites – Vardsia, Uflistsikhe, Davidgareja; Historical and Georgian ancient architectural remarkable places – Jvari, Svetitskhoveli, Nekresi, etc. They took part in vintage in Kakheti, tasted old and new white and black wine, which were made in a clay pottery in a special vessel.

Germans group visit in Georgia and the idea of guests caused invitation and departure of hosts to Germany which conditioned arranging performances and different exhibitions.

Georgians and Germans joint activity resulted the victory of Dimitri Tsintsadze’s movie, winning the main prize – Golden Palm in France in 2010 at the festival de Cannes.