Discover Armenia
Armenia is an epic land. Armenia is one of the ancient countries with a long, great and at times tragic history. Beautiful mountainous landscapes, numerous cultural and historical monuments of Armenia would never leave one cold!
Short film by Bettina Timm about Cosmic Ray Station on Aragats mountain in Armenia near the lake Qarilich at 3250 meters. The station was founded by world-known Armenian physicists Alikhanyan brothers in 1943. Research facilities are located on two high-altitude stations on Mt. Aragats: Nor-Amberd Station and Aragats Station. Cosmic Ray Division (CRD) headquarters are at [...]
About 11,000 years ago the ice shield of the last Ice Age covering the Armenian mountains started to melt. The new stage of the formation of Armenian relief began. The passing glacier formed a lot of cirques (an amphitheater-like valleys) on its way, part of which became tarns. A tarn is a mountain lake or pool [...]
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The Northern pick of Aragats is the highest point not only of Aragats but of the entire present-day Armenia! Altitude of the pick is 4091 meter above the sea level.
To climb the top one must have a good physical fit and especially strong lungs. Four thousand meters is not the just half of Everest, where [...]
Tegher church is another unique place on the Mount Aragats, in Aragatsotn marz. This beautiful creation of the medieval Armenian architecture is located in Tegher village on the southern slope of Aragats at the altitude of 1650 meters above the sea level.
This is a half desolate village, whose inhabitants ascend here only for the warm [...]
The whole territory of Armenia is divided into 10 provinces or, as they are called in Armenian, marz’es. Armenian capital Yerevan is not included in any marz and it has a special administrative status as a capital city.
Each province is divided further into communities, which stand for municipalities. It can be urban or rural communities. [...]
Visiting Armenia, try to include Amberd fortress into your program!
This fortress was a family estate of Pahlavuni dukes. Supposedely the castle was built in the VIIth century by the Kamsarakans, an Armenian noble family. Later the castle passed into the hands of a celebrated Armenian commander Vaghram Pahlavuni. Still later Bagratuni brothers, Armenia rulers of [...]
Once upon a time argued two sisters about their beauty. The one was proving that she’s the most beautiful creature in the world, the other was unbending confident in her superiority. They argued for a long time. No one was willing to make concessions to the other. Maruta Sar was vainly trying to restore piece [...]
