Parsma Fortress-Houses

Castle/Tower Kakheti, Akhmeta district

Castle/Tower Castle/Tower

The Parsma fortress-house stands in Akhmeta municipality, in Tusheti, in the abandoned village of Parsma. It belongs to the late Middle Ages. The house (6.4 × 6.35 m, height 7.2 m) has three stories and is built of slate. Each story has its own separate entrance; the stories are connected by crawl holes. Along the west wall of the first story runs a cattle manger. On the second story there are two windows each in the south and east walls, with a slate hearth in the middle. By the hearth stand two high-backed chairs, by the north wall a long chest, and along the west wall a chest and several wooden barrels. On the third story there are two loopholes each in the east and west walls and one in the north; in the central part of this story's south wall is a large rectangular opening (2.25 × 1.85 m). The floors between stories rest on wooden beams; the ground floor is earthen. The house has a gabled slate roof.

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