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Republic Square冬冬日暖阳Located in the center of the capital Yerevan, there is a musical fountain at night and a pedestrian street not far away. During the day, you can take the elevator to the middle of the mountain. There are many artworks in the elevator hall. When you reach the top, you can overlook the lower city. In the dilapidated Armenia, it is an urbanized existence.
History Museum of Armenia路路中寒梅The Armenian History Museum is located in the Republic Square. It is closed on Monday. It opens at 11 am at other times. Tickets are 2500ADM. Let's see if it is necessary to know about Armenian history. The square is more lively at night and there is a musical fountain.
Opera and Ballet Theatre胡胡乱拍照的的李The Yerevan Opera House and the French Square are actually a crossroads. The statue of the French painter erected in the center of the round square is a gift donated by the French government. It is from the famous Rodin (Auguste Rodin), and the Yerevan Opera House was built in 1933 to the south of the French Square. It includes a concert hall and a ballet theater that was only completed in 1953, and the designer is Alexander Tammanian (Alexander Tamanian). The Liberty Square in front of the gate was formerly known as the Opera Square or the Theatre Square, which was flanked by bronze statues of Armenian composers and poet writers, and I don't even know the name. Liberty Square is still the main place for people to protest, but on weekdays, many teenagers playing wheels and skateboards practice here, every holiday will become a children's playground, surrounded by large inflatable amusement facilities and tents.
Saint Gregory The Illuminator Cathedral长长脸张少侠[Yerevan Cathedral] Also known as St. George's Cathedral, it is the largest church in Yerevan in Armenia, and the Trinity Church in Tbilisi and the largest religious building in the South Caucasus region, which can be seen in many parts of Yerevan. The Yerevan Cathedral was built on April 7, 1997 and dedicated on September 23, 2001, the 1700th anniversary of Armenia's designation of Christianity as the state religion. Pope Paul II visited the church after his dedication. Address: 5GC8+VV9, Yervand Kochar St, Yerevan, Armenia Transportation: Metro Line 1 Zoravar Andranik Station Distance Time: 9:00-20:00 Tickets: Free
The Armenian Genocide Museum长长脸张少侠【Armenian Genocide Museum】
The Armenian Genocide Memorial is located on the Tsitsernakaberd "Swallow Castle" hill in the southwest of Yerevan. It was built after the 50th anniversary demonstration of the genocide in Yerevan in 1965. The memorial is not large in scale, but the exhibition covers a wide range of content, including the situation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire before the genocide, the genocide itself, the reactions of countries around the world at that time, and the impact of the genocide on later history.
There were three most brutal massacres in the 20th century. The Chinese are more familiar with the German Nazi massacre of Jews and the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s. However, not many people know about the Armenian genocide. Under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, the Christian Armenians were naturally not recognized by Muslims. And the Armenians were also famous for being thorns in history, and they have always resisted tyranny. When the Ottoman Empire was weak and dying, it was worried that the Armenians would collude with Russia to oppose them, so it kept finding all kinds of reasons to massacre the Armenians, until it reached a climax during the First World War.
Similar to the fate of the Jews, the Armenians had actually suffered many massacres in the late 19th century, but there was no large-scale killing. Until the First World War, the Ottomans joined the German side and became the opposite of Britain, France and Russia. When the World War broke out in 1914, the Ottomans faced Russia and suffered a disastrous defeat. Its government was even more worried that the Armenians would join forces with the Tsarist Russia to attack them. So, they began to systematically drive out and massacre Armenians and Kurds. According to records, there were 2 million Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire before World War I, and the number dropped sharply to 500,000 after World War I.
The Armenians have been resisting the tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. Their resistance organization "Fifth Column" has been resisting with the help of Tsarist Russia. The Ottoman government used this as an excuse to expel all the Armenians on the Anatolian Peninsula and drive them to the desolate Transcaucasus region. That is the wasteland and desert that I kept seeing along the way from the car, a land that could not be more barren. In the end, this expulsion policy gradually escalated into a genocide.
Although the death toll is not accurate, scholars generally believe that 1-1.5 million people died during the First World War. In 1991, Armenia became independent from the Soviet Union and its land area was only 11.5% of the Armenian Plateau. This more or less laid the fuse for the serious situation in the Transcaucasus region in the future.
Address: 8, 8 Tsitsernakaberd Hwy, Yerevan 0028 Armenia
Transportation: Take bus No. 70 or 87 on the roadside under the Yerevan Stairs
Time: 10:00-15:30
National Gallery of ArmeniaDdg自由的鱼The Armenian National Gallery is located on the upper floor of the National Museum, where European art works are the third largest in the Soviet Union, and many of them are famous works transferred from Russia during World War II. But most of the best works are still by Armenian artists, including Armenia's most famous painters, Martiros Saryan, Yervand Kochar, Ivan Ayvazovsky, etc. The other three and four floors of medieval Armenian artwork are also very exciting, the most shocking is the large medieval murals from different churches in Armenia.
Blue Mosque长长脸张少侠The Yerevan Mosque was built around 1765 by the then local ruler Hussein Ali Kan (Hussein Ali-Khan), and its main role was to be the main mosque of the local Friday. The majestic gates and towering minaret are set in fine blue and green tiles, full of colour and dazzling beauty, and this is the source of its name. The center of the mosque has a fountain, and other buildings of the temple are built around the fountain, the park is mainly planted with eucalyptus trees, and there are public bathrooms and schools nearby. During Soviet rule, the mosque has a Yerevan Museum. In the mid-1990s, Iran’s rulers rebuilt it, a massive reconstruction that was completed in 1999. It was Yerevan’s largest mosque and the only remaining mosque in Armenia built for Muslims. Its name G?k Jami means the Blue Mosque in Turkish. Address: 12 Mesrop Mashtots Ave, Yerevan 0015 Armenia Tickets: Free
Alexander Tamanyan Statue事事事随缘It is also one of the must-see attractions for tourists, climbing up to overlook the whole city, and there are many sculptures along the street below that are very attractive to tourists, and it is also a good place for local citizens to take a leisure walk after dinner.