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Yerevan Cascade
The Yerevan Cascade is a landmark complex in the capital of Armenia. This giant staircase, built into the hillside, connects the city center with Victory Park at the top. Multiple platforms are linked by hundreds of steps, rising along the city's main axis. Today, it serves as a public space for locals to walk and relax, and also attracts visitors from around the world who come specifically to see it. It is like an open-air art museum itself. The plaza at the bottom features a statue of its visionary, the architect Tamanyan, while fountains and courtyards are dotted along the platforms, and contemporary sculptures like Botero's "Black Cat" are displayed in the open air. Inside, it houses the exhibition halls of the Cafesjian Center for the Arts. As you ride the escalators through it, you can also see collections by artists such as Andy Warhol and Chagall along the way.Yerevan · 18.1km from Ashtarak
Zvartnots Museum-Reservation
Zvartnots Museum-Reservation is located on the outskirts of Vagharshapat in western Armenia. Its core is the ruins of a circular cathedral built in the mid-7th century. This architectural style is extremely rare in medieval Armenian architecture: it features a nearly circular polygonal exterior plan, a cruciform, four-lobed interior layout, and is surrounded by an ambulatory, with traces of Urartian-era structures layered beneath it. You can still walk along the circle of standing stone columns on the base, examine the eagle-shaped capitals and relief bands of grapevines on the column tops, and imagine what this three-story cathedral looked like when it stood complete on the plain.Vagharshapat · 14.9km from Ashtarak
Republic Square
Republic Square is the central square of Yerevan and a representative urban space in the city's downtown area. Most of the surrounding buildings are built with the locally unique pink tuff, and the overall design features distinct neoclassical and local Armenian architectural elements. The building facades extensively utilize arches, colonnades, and stone ornamentation, creating a cohesive urban space with the expansive central square. A large fountain sits in the center, featuring musical fountain shows at night, and serves as a prominent public landmark.Yerevan · 18.8km from Ashtarak
Garni Temple
Garni Temple is a Hellenistic temple building in Armenia, and it is also a complete Hellenistic temple in the east of the world. The temple was built in the 1st century AD in the era of Roman Emperor Nero and Armenian King Tiridates I. The Yuan building was destroyed in the earthquake in 1679. Today, what tourists see is the restoration of the archaeological community in the Brezhnev era of the Soviet Union. In the restoration, many building components scattered on the site were used. There are still many historical relics around the temple. For example, there is a Roman bathroom ruins in the far southwest corner, which also preserves the mosaic of the goddess of the sea.Garni · 38km from Ashtarak
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
Byurakan · 8.1km from Ashtarak
Amberd fortress
Byurakan · 15km from Ashtarak
Geghard
Geghard is located deep in the Azat River Gorge in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, with the entire complex partially embedded in the cliffside and some of its halls carved directly from the rock. The main structures include the main church, a narthex, two rock-cut churches, the princely family tomb, monastic cells, and numerous cross-stones. The main church features a typical Armenian cross-shaped floor plan topped with a central dome. Unlike typical freestanding stone buildings, the rock-cut churches extend directly into the rock, with walls, vaults, and columns all carved from the natural rock. Some tombs and worship spaces are also integrated into the cliff face, creating a unique cave-like architectural effect.Mets Gilanlar · 43.2km from Ashtarak
Cafesjian Center For The Arts
An art museum in Yerevan. The location of the museum is also the commanding height of the city. It is very good to see the night view here at night. The museum houses some of Gerrard's works.Yerevan · 18km from Ashtarak
Khor Virap
Khor Virap is situated on the Ararat Plain in Armenia, near the border with Türkiye, and is an active monastery that also serves as an important pilgrimage site in Armenia. Today, the complex is centered around the Church of the Holy Mother of God and surrounded by high walls, resembling a small castle. Religious activities continue, and locals often travel here specifically to be baptized. The pit where Saint Gregory was imprisoned is hidden beneath the Saint George Chapel next to the main church. Outside the walls lie open pastures and vineyards, and releasing white doves by the pit to watch them fly toward the snow-capped mountains is a long-standing tradition.Lusarat · 49.9km from Ashtarak
Freedom Square
Yerevan · 18.4km from Ashtarak
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Yerevan Cascade
Yerevan · 18.1km from Ashtarak
Armenian Genocide Museum
Yerevan · 16.7km from AshtarakGeghard
Mets Gilanlar · 43.2km from AshtarakCafesjian Center For The Arts
Yerevan · 18km from AshtarakKhor Virap
Lusarat · 49.9km from Ashtarak
Saint Gayane Church
Vagharshapat · 15.9km from Ashtarak
Charles Aznavour Square
Yerevan · 18.8km from Ashtarak
Lake Sevan
Sevan · 83.7km from Ashtarak
Sevanavank Monastery
Sevan · 63.5km from Ashtarak
Swan Lake
Yerevan · 18.5km from Ashtarak
What travellers say about Ashtarak
_Dmitry11 August 2026
5.0
A wonderful place. The best way to explore the Cascade is to start from the top and work your way down (you can take a taxi to the top). There's also a wonderful observation deck at the top and a monument to the 50th anniversary of the Revolution. On a clear day, you can see all of Mount Ararat.
Yerevan Cascade
Ekaterina Soloveva20 March 2025
5.0
Republic Square in Yerevan is the heart of the Armenian capital and a symbol of its history and culture. Surrounded by majestic buildings such as the National History Museum and the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, it attracts tourists with its beautiful fountains and green spaces. In the evening, the square is filled with lights, creating a magical atmosphere. It is an ideal place to stroll and enjoy the local atmosphere.
Republic Square
溪蒻26 July 2025
5.0
加尼神庙是按照希腊式的建筑模式而修建的一座神庙，是亚美尼亚前基督教时期建筑的代表作。加尼神庙到今天都是世界上位置最靠东的希腊式神庙。原建筑在1679年的地震中被毁，今天游客看到的是苏联勃列日涅夫时代考古学界复原的建筑，在复原过程中使用了很多散落在原地的建筑构件。
Garni Temple
LikeGor16 February 2020
5.0
In Armenia, a Caucasus country with monasteries everywhere, many famous monasteries are a local landscape and have attracted many international tourists. Although transportation is not very developed, it cannot stop the local people's faith.
Geghard
鲁树良25 January 2022
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This is a coffee museum with many coffee culture displays, which is good.
Cafesjian Center For The Arts
Bat-Orshikh Erdenebat6 June 2026
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It was very interesting to see the cranes’ nests along the way to the Khor Virap.
Khor Virap