{"id":2821,"date":"2020-07-20T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=2821"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:07:13","slug":"le-monastere-de-vardzia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/georgian-mythology\/the-monastery-of-vardzia\/","title":{"rendered":"The monastery of Vardzia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2821\" class=\"elementor elementor-2821\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e6ada6a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e6ada6a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Vardzia Cave Monastery was built during the reign of King George III and his daughter, Queen Tamar. There exists a <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legend<\/a> on the origin of the name of this exceptional monument of medieval architecture. According to legend, when Tamar was still a little girl, she loved to play in this cavernous city which was still unfinished at that time.<\/p>\n\n<p>One day, when she was playing there with her uncle who lost sight of her, Tamar shouted loud and clear from this labyrinth of caves: &quot;Ak var dzia!&quot; &quot;Which translates from Georgian as:&quot; I am here, uncle! &quot;. The last two words echoed throughout the caves, and were heard by King George III. This is how he ordered this place to be called &quot;Vardzia&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5284 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"The monastery of Vardzia\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythologie G\u00e9orgienne Wiki Le monast\u00e8re de Vardzia Le monast\u00e8re de Vardzia fait de grottes a \u00e9t\u00e9 construit sous le r\u00e8gne &hellip; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2775,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2821","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24859,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2821\/revisions\/24859"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}