Yerevan Landmarks and Panoramic City Views
The excursion starts at 11:00 at the location you specified.
The Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex was built in 1967 in memory of the victims of the first genocide in the modern history of mankind, arranged by the Turks in 1915. The memorial complex consists of a 44-meter stela, a cone of 12 plates, a 100-meter wall of mourning, and the museum. At the memorial entrance, there is also a garden with trees planted by leaders of different countries. The memorial is surrounded by a huge territory, where every year, on April 24, millions of Armenian people from Armenia and the diaspora rise to honor the memory of the victims.
Victory Park was established in 1924, when it bore the name Arabkir Park, and after World War Two it was renamed Victory Park. There is also a magnificent statue of Mother Armenia, erected in 1967; before that, there was a monument to Stalin until 1962. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the eternal flame were built in 1970. From the park opens an amazing landscape of Yerevan and Mount Ararat, where you will have a great opportunity to take amazing memory pictures.
The next point of this interesting excursion is the famous and majestic Cascade Monument. The construction project was laid back in 1924 by the legendary architect A. Tamanyan. According to his plan, the monument was to connect the city's north with the center for walking citizens. Work began in the 1980s, but lasted for several years and was suspended due to the fall of the USSR and the Karabakh war. The work was reorganized again in 2002 by an American philanthropist of Armenian descent, Gerard Gefeschyan, who bought the project and restarted the work. Since 2009, the Museum of Art, named after Gefeschyan, has been operating here.
Republic Square began to be built in 1924 by the most famous architect of Armenia, Alexander Tamanyan, and was completed in 1977, although most of the buildings were built in 1950. Covering an area of 30,000 square meters of white and pink tuff, it is the main attraction and the heart of modern Yerevan. The project consists of five buildings: Government House, Main Post Office, the Marriott Hotel, the former Foreign Ministry building, and the Museum of History and the Art Gallery. In the center are the famous singing fountains, which turn on in the evening.
The excursion will end at the location you specified.
