Armenia travel guide

Before you go to Armenia

Yerevan Armenia's capital on the Hrazdan and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities — Erebuni, the Urartian fortress of 782 BC, is…
Sevan Armenia's lakeside resort at 1,925 m on the northwest shore of Lake Sevan, inside Sevan National Park — the 9th-century Sevanavank…
Dilijan A forested spa town inside Dilijan National Park, where restored Sharambeyan Street keeps its craft workshops and gallery, and the medieval…
Gyumri Armenia's second city and Shirak's centre, known in turn as Alexandropol, Leninakan and Gyumri — the 19th-century Kumayri district…
Goris Syunik's cultural centre, set at 1,385 m below the Zangezur Mountains on slopes honeycombed with medieval cave dwellings cut from soft rock…
Jermuk A mountain spa town in Vayots Dzor built on hot springs and the mineral water bottled under its name — a 70 m waterfall on the Arpa, forest…
Tsaghkadzor Armenia's main ski resort on the eastern flank of Mount Teghenis, where a chain of cableway lifts climbs to 2,819 m — the monastery of…
Vagharshapat Armenia's spiritual capital 18 km west of Yerevan, still widely called Ejmiatsin — the Mother See at Etchmiadzin, the churches of Hripsime,…