Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Yerevan, Armenia

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.

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A "Kato" sculpture, located in Yerevan, Armenia, at the Gaffesky Arts Center in Kasada, was installed in 2002.

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A sculpture of "Smoking Woman" is located at the Gaffesky Arts Center in the Kasada complex in Armenia. The sculpture was created in 1987, and a potential copy was installed in 2012.

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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.

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A sculpture of "Roman Soldier" is located at the Gaffesky Arts Center in Kasada, Armenia, in 2005.

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The rabbit on the bell, the full name, the rabbit on the call with Portland stone pillars, the bronze statue of the Irish sculptor, which has been parked in the Cascade Center in the Cascade Complex.

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A monument to William Saroyan, located at the intersection of the Mauritius Palace and Moscow Street in the center of Yerevan, was installed in 2008.

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Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Ottoman-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.

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The Eucharist's Name Park is located in the Central Community of Armenia, near the Eucharist's Conservatory, and the Sait-Nova Music School.

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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.

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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.

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The "Woman of Arabia" sculpture is located at the intersection of Sait-Nova Palace and Lord's Streets near Opera in Armenia. The sculpture was created in 1985, and it was installed in 1988.

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The Melody Sculpture is located in the heart of Yerevan, adjacent to the Liberation Square and Lake Karapi. Posted in 1965.

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The Reader Monument, located near the National Children's Library of Phnom Penh-Apor, was erected in 2013.

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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.

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Saint Anna Church is an Armenian Apostolic Church opened in 2015 in the Kentron District of Yerevan, Armenia, adjacent to the 13th-century Katoghike Church.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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