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Sightseeing Tours in YerevanActivities in Yerevan1. Cascade
The Cascade is located in Yerevan, Armenia. White travertine stone was used for building the complex since only this stone was available in the amount sufficient for such a large-scale construction. The Yerevan’s Cascade is situated in the northern part of the city center near the Opera House and Matenadaran. The building is an architectural heritage of Soviet Armenia, it connects the city center with the Victory Park, which commemorates the Soviet Army’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. There is a square on the top of a hill overlooking the Ararat Valley and downtown Yerevan. The park features the Mother Armenia statue that houses a military museum dedicated to the history of World War II and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Cascade consists of 5 hillside terraces connected with 572 steps. The building is 302 m high, 50 m wide, and has a total area of 13 hectares with a 15-degree slope. The uppermost platform is called the Monumental Terrace. It houses the 40th Anniversary of Soviet Armenia monument standing 118 m tall. The terrace consists of a zone bordered by 15 columns symbolically reflecting Armenia's historical heritage. Each floor and sector of the external staircase is a unique work of art. In the inner part of the building, there are elevators and escalators connecting all platforms from the foundation to the top. The entire territory of the architectural heritage is an open-air museum of modern art lying amid the green space. It is a complex of massive stairs with fountains that rise from the Tamanyan Street pedestrian area in the central Kentron district.
2. Yerevan History Museum
The Yerevan History Museum is the history museum of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. The museum was founded in 1931 as the Communal Museum. Currently, the museum is located in a building attached to the Yerevan City Hall. The architect of the building was Jim Torosyan.
3. Charles Aznavour Square
Charles Aznavour Square is a small square in the Kentron District of the Armenian capital Yerevan. The square is named in honour of the French Armenian singer Charles Aznavour as part of the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of Armenian independence in 2001. The square adjacent to Abovyan Street includes a number of important venues including Stanislavski Russian Theatre of Yerevan, the Moscow Cinema, the Artists' Union of Armenia offices. Grand Hotel Yerevan on Abovyan Street also overlooks the square. The square also hosted the Yerevan Vernissage before the latter moved to its present location.
4. Torq Angegh
Tork Angegh is a deity of strength, courage, manufacturing and the arts in Armenian mythology. A creature of unnatural strength and power, Tork was considered one of the great-grandsons of Hayk, the legendary patriarch of the Armenian people. He was reportedly represented as an unattractive male figure. He is mentioned by the early Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi and is considered one of the significant deities of the Armenian pantheon prior to the time when it came under influence by Iranian and Hellenic religion and mythology. Taken in the context of Proto-Indo-European religions, it is conceivable that an etymological connection with Thor and Týr is more than a simple coincidence.
5. Circular Park
The Circular Park ; also known as the Youth Park, is a public park in the Kentron district of the Armenian capital Yerevan. It starts with the Cathedral of Saint Gregory at the south on Tigran Mets street, and ends up with the Poplavok lake at the north near Mashtots Avenue. The park lies along Khanjyan, Yervand Kochar, Alex Manoogian, Moskovian and Isahakyan streets, forming a half-circular shaped park around the eastern part of downtown Yerevan. The park has an approximate length of 2500 metres and an average width of 120 metres.
6. Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral
The Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, also known as the Yerevan Cathedral is the largest cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is located in the Kentron District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and is one of the largest religious buildings in the South Caucasus along with the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi. Adjacent to the General Andranik metro station, it is visible from many areas of Yerevan.
Wikipedia: Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan (EN)
7. Erebuni Museum-Reservation
Erebuni Museum was established in 1968. The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 2750th anniversary of Yerevan. The Museum stands at the foot of the Arin Berd hill, on top of which the Urartian Fortress Erebouni has stood since 782 BCE. The city-fortress was excavated, some parts of the structure were reinforced and restored, and the fortress was turned into an outdoor museum.
8. Blue Mosque
The Blue Mosque is an 18th-century Shia mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was commissioned by Hoseyn Ali Khan, the khan of the Iranian Erivan Khanate. It is one of the oldest extant structures in central Yerevan and the most significant structure from the city's Iranian period. It was the largest of the eight mosques of Yerevan in the 19th century and is the only active mosque in Armenia today.
9. Katoghike Church
The Church of the Holy Scriptures in Catholicism is one of the ancient churches of Yerevan. It is located at the intersection of the streets of present-day Abkhazia and Sait-Nova in the center of Yerevan. Later built in the medieval basilica, the ancient structure of the native Yerevan is the oldest structure in Yerevan that has never been destroyed, even during the 1679 earthquake.
10. Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցի
Holy John Church, a humbled Armenian Apostolic Church in the northeastern part of the Avan Community of Armenia (Vd.). A cross is depicted on the entrance bar. Numerous patterned crosses engraved on the walls of the church have been preserved. Monuments, stones, and medieval cemeteries are preserved around the church. On the left side of the church yard is a scroll-covered cross.
11. Johannes Lepsius
Johannes Lepsius was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. He initially studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and a PhD in 1880 with an already award-winning work. Lepsius was one of the founders and the first chairman of the German–Armenian Society.
12. Erebuni Fortress
Erebuni Fortress is an Urartian fortified city, located in Yerevan, Armenia. It is 1,017 metres (3,337 ft) above sea level. It was one of several fortresses built along the northern Urartian border and was one of the most important political, economic and cultural centers of the vast kingdom. The name Yerevan itself is derived from Erebuni.
13. Khachatur Abovyan statue
A monument to Khachatra Abovyan, located near Kh. Abovyan's home museum in the Kanaker district of Armenia, was installed on Abkhaz Street in 1933, and then moved several times. The current location was installed in September 1964. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the administrative district of Canyon-Zaitun, Armenia.
Wikipedia: Խաչատուր Աբովյանի հուշարձան (Երևան, Քանաքեռ) (HY)
14. Martiros Saryan monument
A monument to Martyros Saran, It is located in the grove of Martyros Saryan in the center of Yerevan, between the Mauritius, the Marshall Palaces, and the Zoroastrian Road, just outside the street of the great artist's name, in 1986. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
15. David of Sasun
David of Sassoun is a copper equestrian statue depicting David of Sassoun in Yerevan, Armenia. Erected by Yervand Kochar in 1959, it depicts the protagonist of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun. It is placed on a rock-like basalt pedestal in the middle of a large square in front of Yerevan's main railway station.
16. The Men
The Men is a public artwork in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Created by Armenian sculptor Davit Minasyan in 2007, it commemorates Edmond Keosayan's 1972 film of the same name, and comprises four statues, depicting the film's stars, the actors Mher Mkrtchyan, Avetik Gevorkyan, Armen Ayvazyan, and Azat Sherents.
17. Կարեն Դեմիրճյան
Karen Demirgyan's semicircle is located in front of 139 schools named Karen Demirgyan in the New York State Administrative Region of Armenia. The school was founded in 1968. In 2002, he was named after Karen Demirgyan, Armenia's national hero. The museum was installed in 2003. The sculptor is Hamlet Matthias.
18. The seller of water
A sculpture of the "Waterfall Boy" in the English Garden of Armenia was installed in 1970. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia. One of the symbols of ancient Yerevan is dedicated to former Bulgarian waterfront teenagers.
19. Aleksandr Myasnikyan Monument
Alexander Myasnikyan's monument, located in Yerevan, was posted in 1980, in honor of Armenian party, political, public figure Alexander Myasnikyan. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
20. Komitas statue
Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology.
21. Nelson Stepanyan
Nelson Stefanov's semicircle, located in a children's park between Moses Mukhtar, Gregory Lucifer, Beirut, and Zachian streets in the center of Yerevan, was installed in 1950. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
22. Cafesjian Sculpture Garden
The Cafesjian Center for the Arts is an art museum in Yerevan, Armenia. It is located at the central Kentron District, in and around the Yerevan Cascade which is a complex of massive staircase with fountains, ascending up from the Tamanyan Street gardens and pedestrian zone.
23. Ղազարոս Աղայան
Ghazaros Aghayan's bust, located in Yerevan's Arabkir community, in front of school No. 63 after Ghazaros Aghayan. The monument was erected in 1955. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Arabkir administrative district of Yerevan.
24. Avetik Isahakyan
A monument to the Gospel of Isaac, It is located in the heart of Yerevan, adjacent to the Moscow, Isaac, and Abkhaz streets, just outside the Youth Station in 1965. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
25. Mordechai Navi Synagogue
Mordechai Navi Synagogue, also called the Mordechai Navi Jewish Centre, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 23 Nar Dos Street, in the central Kentron district of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The synagogue was opened in June 2011.
26. Գաբրիել Սունդուկյան
A monument to Gabriel Sundukyan is located in front of the Academy Theater of Gabriel Sundukyan in the English Garden of Armenia, Comaig, in 1972. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
27. Hare on Bell on Portland Stone Piers
The sailboat on the bell, the full name of the sailor on the Portland stone support bell, A bronze statue of Irish sculptor Berry Flanagan, dated 2005 in the Central District of Armenia, at the Gaffesky Arts Center in the Cascade complex.
28. Vardan Mamikonyan statue
A monument to Vardar Mamikonian, located in the Oak Park in Armenia, adjacent to the Vardaran and Changyan Roads, was installed in 1975. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
29. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov's bust is located in the Kentron community of Yerevan, in front of the school No. 55. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
30. Matenadaran of Yerevan
The Matenadaran, officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and a research institute in Yerevan, Armenia. It is the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts.
31. Yeghishe Charents Monument
A monument to Eliser Charan, located in the Oak Park in central Yerevan, in front of the radio station, was erected in 1985. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
32. Khachatur Abovyan monument
A monument to Khachatra Abovyan is located at the end of Abkhazia Street in central Yerevan, Abkhazia, in 1950. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
Wikipedia: Խաչատուր Աբովյանի հուշարձան (Երևան, Աբովյան պուրակ) (HY)
33. Andrey Sakharov monument
Andrei Sakharov's monument, located in the square of Sakharov in the center of Yerevan, was erected in 2001. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
34. Holy Vartanants Martyrs Church
St. Vartanants Martyrs Church is the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is located on the Yerablur hill, right of the Yerevan-Echmiadzin highway.
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