Kakheti is geographically divided into the Inner Kakheti to the east of Tsiv-Gombori mountain-range and the Outer Kakheti to the west of it.
Kakheti was an independent feudal principality since the end of the 8th century.
In 1918 â 1921 Kakheti was part of independent Democratic Republic of Georgia, in 1922 â 1936 part of Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and in 1936â 1991 part of Georgian SSR.
Kakheti is a rich valley of vineyards nestled in the mountains east of Tbilisi.
The attraction of Kakheti is Alaverdi, a church of the 11
It was the week of Alaveroba, the saints-feast to which for hundreds of years the shepherds come down from Pshavi to dance with the peasants of the Kakheti valley.