Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia as well as one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country. It has been the capital since 1918, the twelvethin the history200 >>>
October 20-21 marks the 2800th anniversary of the founding of Armenia’s current capital Yerevan. Yerevan flourished as a city around the fortress Erebuni, founded by the Urartian King Argishti the First, in 782 B.C. The name “Yerevan” itself is an evolutionary transformation of “Erebuni”. Archaeolog200 >>>
Francophonie Village is a crossroad of cultures and civilizations, the official opening of the Village took place on October 9. >>>
TourStat analysis agency presents the ranking of the best enogastronomic festivals in the Commonwealth of Independent States for Russian tourists this fall. Top three popular destinations for Russian gastro tourists in the CIS space are Azerbaijan, Armenia and Moldova, and top three enogastro events200 >>>
UNESCO Committee on the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict held a session at the UNESCO headquarters on 27 September to debate, among other things, the petition on grating Enhanced Protection to Armenia’s Monastery200 >>>
According to Bloomberg, Armenia is among the fastest-growing tourist destinations in Europe along with several other countries. >>>
Yerevan is among top five destinations for Russian tourists in the Commonwealth of Independent States this autumn in TourStat agency’s ranking. Top ten cities in the CIS space are Minsk, Astana, Baku, Yerevan, Tashkent, Almaty, Bishkek, Chisinau, Dushanbe and Ashgabat. According to the agency, Russi200 >>>
A letter from Pope Francis was read at the conclusion of celebrations marking 300 years from the foundation of the Armenian Mekhitarist Congregation in its Monastery in Venice, Vatican News reports. Pope Francis on Sunday praised the Armenian Mekhitarist Congregation for their tradition of theologic200 >>>
“You can have all the swirling harmony in the world,” the drummer Brian Blade said, “but only the cymbals can put you over the top of that mountain you’re trying to climb. The tension is the beauty of it, like riding a wave until you need it to crest.” Mr Blade, who is best known […] >>>
Armenia’s Gevorg Harutyunyan has taken the second spot at the annual New Wave 2018 international music contest in Sochi, Russia, sharing the place with Russian Darya Antonyuk with 297 points. >>>
Akhtamar Church (the Church of the Holy Cross), a medieval Armenian church in Turkey’s eastern Van province draws the interest of foreign and domestic visitors, Anadolu Agency said in an article about Akhtamar. The church, located on Akhtamar Island, also known as Akdamar, Aghtamar and Ahtamar200 >>>
Germania Airlines has opened direct flights from Berlin to Yerevan and back, representatives of the German air company said on 19 of June. The official representative of the company in Armenia is Sidon Travel, owned by Portugal’s Honorary Consul in Armenia Sam Samuelian. The first flight was o200 >>>
Armenia airline has launched regular flights from Yerevan to France’s third largest town of Lyon, the Main Civil Aviation Administration reported on 23 of April. The head of the Main Civil Aviation Administration Sergey Avetisyan said there is a large demand for this route because of a strong Armeni200 >>>
The Republic of Armenia held on 21st of September a series of activities across the country to celebrate its 25th anniversary of independence >>>
I am happy to have visited Armenia, the first nation to accept Christianity as its religion, and I thank all for the welcome. >>>
On 25 of June an outdoor Ecumenical Service and Peace Prayer will be held in Yerevan – in Republic Square. >>>
The Canonization Service of the Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide was held at Holy See of Mother Etchmiadzin on 23-th of April >>>
On April 12, 2015 Pope Francis led the Armenian Catholic-rite mass on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican. His Holiness honored the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by calling it “the200 >>>
President Serzh Sargsyan deposited the original copy of the declaration with the Armenian-Genocide Museum-Institute >>>
