Telavi is the main city and administrative center of Georgia`s eastern province of Kakheti. The city is located on the foothills of the Tsiv-Gombori Range at 500–800 m above sea level. Telavi is the main city and administrative center of Georgia`s eastern province of Kakheti. The city is located on the foothills of the Tsiv-Gombori Range at 500–800 m above sea level. Telavi and its surroundings are rich in historical, architectural and natural monuments. Telavi is the only city in Georgia where four fortification monuments from four historical periods remain relatively intact. Due to this reason, architects, scholars and art historians consider Telavi as the most “medieval” city in the country. Another curious sight in Telavi is a 900-year-old plane tree which is 40 m high and 11 m around the trunk. Telavi serves as the hometown of the Georgian bush pilot Mimino (Vakhtang Kikabidze) in the 1977 Soviet comedy Mimino.