Armenia Travel Blog

Direct flights from Venice, Italy, to Yerevan, Armenia, will start on June 5, 2009.
The flights will be opened by a new air-company Festa Tour Avia in partnership with the Italian MyAir. The ticket price is expected to be around 475 Euro. The flights will initially be only weekly, however if the new direction is successful [...]

Armenia and namely Yerevan can definitely be called the center of jazz in Caucasus. Jazz is an essential part of Yerevan’s life.
The first Armenian jazz orchestra was officially formed in Armenia in 1938 under the direction of Artemi Ayvazian. It was the first official state jazz orchestra in the Soviet republics (second after Russia) and was [...]

Middle Ages were the times of the flourishing of the Armenian art; It was the Golden Age for Armenian architecture, crafts, literature, miniature. One of the brightest representatives of the medieval Armenian poetry was Nahapet Kuchak.
 
LOVE SONG
Thy face is like a moon that shines on earth,
Like a thick night thy clustering tresses be; 
Apples of paradise [...]

The Armenian art of manuscript illumination survived 14 centuries, from the Vth till the XIXth century. Starting from the Vth century, after the creation of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots in 405, Armenia experiences the flowering of literature, both translated and original. The boom was soon reflected in the art of the miniature.
Many manuscripts, [...]

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The better quality you can find on the site of the travel agency, that organizes trips to Aragats

Armenian churches become cattlesheds and military objects in Turkey, and cafes and restaurants in Armenia.
All Armenian cultural and religious monuments that are located far from main roads of Turkey are not being destroyed, but used as habitations and cattlesheds. According to Samvel Karapetyan, the chairman of the “Era” humane society and historian, the church of [...]

Presentation of a new monthly travel magazine took place in Yerevan. “Discover Armenia” is the second Armenian travel magazine after the issue of the first Armenian “National Geographic Traveler” earlier this year.
“Discover Armenia” aims to introduce Armenia and the Armenian cultural and historical heritage, Armenian science, religion and events abroad. The magazine will be issued [...]

Number of tourists, visited Armenia in the first half of 2008, increased by 13,3% in comparison to the first half of 2007.
According to the head of the tourism department of the Ministry of Economy of Armenia Mekhak Apresian, 207 479 tourists visited Armenia in January-June 2008 against 183 110 last year.
The total amount of money [...]

Today, on November 4, residents of the Armenian capital Yerevan could feel earthquaking shocks. The earthquake magnitude was about 4-5. This is a light shaking causing no damage, that happens in Armenia several times a year.

“At the foot of Ararat”, an exposition devoted to Boris Piotrovsky’s 100th anniversary, opened in the state Ermitage of St.Petersburg, Russia. Academician Boris Piotrovsky was a celebrated archaeologist, orientalist, founder of the Russian Urartology, who studied archeology of Caucasus most of his life, and director of the Ermitage from 1908 till 1990.
The exposition includes pieces [...]