Nagebebi complex

 place with historical importance, archeological site, tourist attraction, Orthodox church

Archaeological digs on the hillock of Samarkhebis Seri, in the western portion of the Nekresi site—at the place locally known as Nagebebi—have unearthed a stone winery, rectangular in plan and measuring 20 x 20 m. It contained five spacious winepresses and two cisterns. The inventory was limited mostly to pottery, some of them glazed. The structure is dated to the 4th–5th century. A layer under the winery yielded remains of pre-Christian sanctuary, with ritual and sacrificial pits, and burials, dated—based on the characteristics of uncovered clayware—to the 3rd–2nd century BC.

Some 30 metres away stand the ruins of a 6th-century three-church basilica, whose outlook was altered in the early 8th century, probably as a result of an enemy attack as suggested by traces of fire. Fragments of the 12th–13th-century pottery found on the church's floor indicate that the church was still in use at that time, eventually falling to ruin in the 14th century, probably as a result of Timur's invasions of Georgia. Around the church there are a number of burials.