Ujarma can be distinguished with its greatness among the fortresses of Georgia. The first note about Ujarma is met in the middle of the third century. The king Vakhtang Gorgasali constructed it. During Persians attack, king Vakhtang advised bishop Petre to stay in the church of St. Razhden, he built in Ujarma, as he hoped no city around Ujarma could defeat this fortress.

    From the beginning of the IV century till the end of the VIII century Ujarma reminded the strongest fortress-city.

    Ujarma is located in the ravine of the river Iori, to the right side of Tbilisi-Telavi road on Gambori Pass.

    Fortress consisted of two parts. According the mountain relief, we have down and upper fortresses.

    We have two storied building in the upper fortress – north-east corner. Each floor has three rooms. According academician N. Berdzenishvili it is the king’s palace.

    There is a church on the territory of upper fortress. It is ancient part (first floor), dated of V century. The fortress-city had good supply; there are agricultural buildings and water reservoirs among them.

    There are rectangle towers in the fence of down fortress, it has deaf walls, but inside there are wide doors and windows with the form of horse-shoe arches.

    Great attention must be paid to the three storied building, it has difficult construction. There was a corridor to the river Iori and the city was supplied with water, that’s why it was called “water tower”.

    The tower became the main interest of our annual expedition. The tower was wholly cleaned, researched, got ready for restoration and the project was fulfilled.
  
    The bits of clay dishes and tiles were discovered during its cleaning, which proved the importance of fortress Ujarma. The works done by the club “Temple” gave us new sheets to read, from the lost book of Ujarma fortress.
                                                                                                           A. Pavlenishvili
                                                                                                           Architect-restorer