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Yerevan is the capital of the state of Armenia and it is its largest city. Yerevan is not only characterized as the capital of Armenia, but also as a large historical museum that includes many immortal monuments that express the history of that wonderful city. The Khashkar or statue of the mother watching the capital from the top of a hill still immortalizes the great victories of women to build Armenia. In addition to many other historical monuments, each of which revokes an ancient story of history in Armenia, so everyone who visits it finds that it has a wealth of unique tourist attractions, and in this article we will get to know together the most famous and most beautiful monuments in the city of Yerevan.

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Tourist destinations in Yerevan

Cafesjian Arts Center

This unique center is located on a vast journey of stone steps known as Cascade, and is one of the city’s main cultural attractions. It was designed in 1920 and was designed by Soviet architect Alexander Tamanian as part of his plan to modernize the city of Yerevan, and the massive structure of the center was worked out in 1980, but it stopped after the 1988 earthquake. Ultimately, Armenian American Gerard Kavisjian came to the rescue That and financing the center with the necessary to complete the center and turn into a huge imaginary block of contemporary multi-level arts.

Cafesjian Arts Center
Cafesjian Arts Center

Two external halls for the center and five exhibition halls can be reached by an internal elevator that operates from 8 am to 8 pm daily. Beside the escalators you will find many platforms where artworks of contemporary sculpture and furniture are displayed from Kavisjian’s personal collection from the 20th century. We also find the center equipped with a wonderful garden equipped with a lot of colorful flowers that add a sense of joy and beauty to the place and that contains many beautiful water fountains as well, and the center also includes some other things that you should not miss the opportunity to see close to it the modern Khashkars which is a stone that includes many Solid sculptures and contemporary sculptures. You can enter to see it for free. You must also get an entry ticket if you want to see the wonderful internal exhibitions that the center owns. On the ground floor you will find a store of beautiful souvenirs, and there is also a welcoming and well-equipped art library with a small children’s section.

Cafesjian Arts Center

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Cafesjian Arts Center

As for the Cascade Garden, which includes stone works, it contains sculptures that appear on three huge bronze works by the italyn-Colombian sculptor Fernando Butero. You can also see the weird iron teapot made by Joanna Vasconcelos, as well as many other works. The two parks facing the park are home to many cafes, bars and restaurants with plenty of outdoor seating.

Cafesjian Arts Center
Cafesjian Arts Center

Eriboni Historical and Archaeological Museum

This archaeological site dates back to 782 BC, that is, three decades before the founding of Rome. The museum gives an excellent view of daily life in the first Argishti Palace and is one of the greatest kings of Urartu. The museum is located at the foot of the hill and displays artifacts from the palace excavations, including some distinct silver objects, as well as things that were found when the Ortian tomb was discovered in the city of Yerevan in 1984 the first phase of excavations began in the place in 1950, After the farmer discovered an engraved stone disk. Archaeologists soon turned to the place, and then a large cuneiform slab was found with the first Argishti inscriptions which confirm the date on which the castle was built. They continued to uncover the remains of Al Bahahs, halls, temples, and rooms that were part of the royal palace. Dozens of Urartian and Achaemenid artifacts and wall fragments were also found, many of which are now on display in the museum. Excavations have unearthed similar ancient discoveries such as frescoes in the palace wall where they were rebuilt but as a replica, in addition to the discovery of huge stores of wheat, along with an oven and giant jugs of wine and oil. There they also found a place for animal sacrifices, and workshops for making tools still buried.

Eriboni Historical and Archaeological Museum
Eriboni Historical and Archaeological Museum

Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial

As a reminder of the massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1922, this establishment offers a powerful museum experience similar to that of the past. This museum or memorial was designed by architects Arthur Tarkhanian and Sachur Kalashian as it was built on a large area and consisted of two floors where the monument was built over the hill so as not to detract from the monument above because it is high in height.

Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial
Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial

The story of this terrible historical event emerged through pictures, documents, newspaper and movie reports. And you can discover the whole story when you visit this monument, as it includes a wide path surrounded by a wall up to 100 meters high and it is long and engraved with the names of exterminated groups. That monument was built in 1967. It consists of a circle of 12 basalt panels that stand diagonally to guard the eternal flame.

Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial
Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial

The 12 sloping panels represent the lost provinces of Western Armenia, and the lands lost to Turkey in the post-World War I peace deal between Ataturk and Lenin, while the race has a good division that divides it into larger and smaller needles, the smaller one that represents Western Armenia. Beside the monument there is a position on the trees planted by foreign leaders who use the term genocide to describe the events that occurred. When you visit that place, you will be aware of the horrific events that occurred in the past, but you will also be dazzled by the appearance of the impressive monument that attracts attention, as it is one of the most important and wonderful places in the world.

Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial
Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial

The Historical Museum of Armenia

This museum brings together the most important artifacts dating back to the Bronze Age, which made this museum in Armenia the prominent cultural institution, as it is an essential place where every visitor stops to see the greatness of Armenian history. Some artifacts were found during the excavation of many items in a cemetery of Shashin near a lake Sevan in 1950 in addition to containing a group of bronze sculptures, four-wheeled wood compounds decorated with metal motifs, carved stone fertility symbols, and an impressive array of weapons and armor such as arrows, hoods, and helmets. Among the other exhibits are the medieval Khashkars memoirs, as well as a display of some of the 18th and 19th century Armenian costumes, and 5,500-year-old leather shoes discovered in a cave in the Vautz-Dazur area in 2008, carpets and evenings Embroidered any ritual gowns. The only disappointing section of the museum is the focus on Soviet Armenia, which intentionally ignores markings in the English language and all other exhibits have designations in Armenian, Russian and English.

The Historical Museum of Armenia
The Historical Museum of Armenia

If you are thinking about where to go on your next vacation, we advise you to visit the wonderful city of Yerevan, in which you will only find art, history and beautiful natural beauty.
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