Day 01
Yerevan's Architectural and Cultural Landmarks
- The excursion starts at 11:00 at the location you specified.
- Matenadaran was built in 1920 and is one of the world's repositories of ancient manuscripts, with more than 17 thousand preserved here. It is located at the end of M. Mashtots Street, the main street of Yerevan. Monuments to Mesrop Mashtots and other great Armenian historians and philosophers were erected in this part of the building. Inside, you will see a magnificent museum with a huge collection of ancient documents from various countries.
- St. Gregory Church was built in 2001 in honor of the 1700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity in Armenia and is the largest cathedral in Yerevan and in Armenia. Inside, you will see a huge hall for services as well as the delicate architecture created by Armenian architects. The church is located in front of the Russia shopping center, on Tigran Mets Street.
- The great fortress of Erebuni was built by the Urartian king Argishti I in 782 BC and became the first architectural monument from which the construction of the capital, Yerevan, began. During the Soviet Union, archaeological findings confirmed that Yerevan is older than Rome. A museum is located right in front of the entrance steps, displaying ancient relics and cuneiform writing from the ancient Urartian kingdom, while the ruins of the historic city rise on top of the hill. According to Forbes magazine, it is one of the nine oldest fortresses in the world that everyone should visit.
- The excursion ends at the location you specified.
