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Echmiadzin Cathedral (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, videos. Echmiadzin (Vagharshapat), a quiet and comfortable town with a rich historical past, is located 30 km west of Yerevan, in the vast Ararat valley, the largest hearth of Christian cultu…
St. Hripsime Church (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. The temple of Surb Hripsime, built in the 7th century, stands at the entrance to the city of Vagharshapat and is part of the Echmiadzin monastery. Here rest the relics of Sa…
Zvartnots Temple (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. In the early 20th century a group of researchers discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, buried up to the roof under a layer of earth and sand. Having excavated the structur…
Sevan - main resorts and areas, tours and attractions, museums, tourist reviews about Sevan. Sevan is a mountainous lake in Armenia, one of the largest lakes in the Caucasus, located in a mountain bowl almost 2 km above sea level. Today, Sevan and its surroundings are a well-known landmark in Armeni…
Singing Fountains of Yerevan (Yerevan, Armenia) - description, history, location, reviews, photos and videos. Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, is a beautiful and sunny city, which gives you sincere smiles and bright emotions from the views of the biblical Mount Ararat, contrasting combinations of mo…
Sergey Parajanov Museum (Yerevan, Armenia) - exhibitions, opening hours, address, phone numbers, official website. Even those who are not familiar with the works of film director Sergey Parajanov will find it fascinating and informative to visit the museum dedicated to this outstanding talent in Yer…
Monument "Mother Armenia" (Yerevan, Armenia) - description, history, location, reviews, photos and video. In the heart of Yerevan, the monument "Mother Armenia" rises above the city. The monument, 54 meters high and made of copper, is intended to immortalize the feat of the Armenian people in the Gr…
Tatev Monastery (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. 30 km from Goris, in the heart of the Syunik region of Armenia, is one of the largest temple complexes in the country: the Tatev Monastery, or simply Tatev. The annals say that…
Sanahin Monastery (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. The Sanahin monastery complex in the delta of the Debed river is considered to be one of the most inaccessible religious buildings in Armenia: it can be reached only on foot,…
Geghardavank Monastery (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. The monastic complex of Geghard (Geghard) has the ancient name Ayrivank - "cave monastery". The first buildings here were erected as early as the 4th century B.C. The nam…
Noravank Monastery Complex (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. The Noravank Monastery Complex is a gem of Armenian religious architecture. Located 120 km from Yerevan, it attracts tourists with its 13th century churches against a…
Erebouni Fortress (Yerevan, Armenia) - history, tours, expositions. Exact address, phone number, cost of entrance tickets. Local legends and ghosts. In 782 BC, Argishti I, king of the Kingdom of Van, decided to establish the fortress of Erebuni on the Red Hill as a strategic site to anchor the Urart…