Armenia Tourism Map

Explore Armenia

84 places with verified locations. Choose one for what it is, how to reach it and what is nearby.

• DestinationAreniAreni is a small village in the dry red-rock landscape of Vayots Dzor, at the centre of Armenia's most important wine area and beside the cave where archaeologists found the world's oldest known winery. It is a base rather than a sight: a place to taste wine, visit the Areni-1 cave and reach the Noravank monastery at the end of its gorge, on the main road south towards Goris and Iran.
• DestinationDilijanDilijan is a forested mountain town in Tavush, surrounded by a national park of over 240 square kilometres of beech and oak woodland, with a restored nineteenth-century craft street, walking trails into the hills, and the monasteries of Haghartsin and Goshavank in wooded settings nearby. It is Armenia's main slow-travel base and a complete climatic contrast to the dry plain around Yerevan.
• DestinationGorisGoris is a nineteenth-century planned town in southern Armenia, laid out on a grid in a bowl ringed by eroded rock pinnacles and honeycombed cave dwellings. It is the practical base for Tatev Monastery and the Wings of Tatev cable car, the abandoned cave village of Khndzoresk, and the wider Syunik region, and it exists on most itineraries because the distances down here make an overnight close to unavoidable.
• DestinationGyumriGyumri is Armenia's second city and its most architecturally distinctive, built from black and red volcanic tuff in a nineteenth-century merchant style that survives across more than a thousand buildings in the protected Kumayri district. It has a strong independent cultural identity, a reputation for humour and craft that Armenians take seriously, and a train link from Yerevan that makes it one of the easiest places in the country to reach without a car.
• DestinationSevanSevan is the town and shoreline on Armenia's great high-altitude lake, sitting at roughly 1,900 metres where the water stays cold, the wind is constant and the light is unlike anywhere else in the country. It is the base for the Sevanavank monastery on its peninsula, the medieval khachkar field at Noratus, and a short but genuine summer swimming season.
• DestinationTsaghkadzorTsaghkadzor is Armenia's main mountain resort, an hour north of Yerevan on the slopes of Mount Teghenis, with a lift system rising from around 1,966 metres to about 2,819 metres, the eleventh-century Kecharis monastery in the town centre, and a Soviet-era Olympic training complex that explains why a town this size has infrastructure this large. It is a genuine ski destination in winter and a cool-air escape with a ropeway and walking in summer, and the two experiences are almost entirely different.
• DestinationYerevanYerevan is Armenia's capital and the base for almost every trip to the country: a low-rise city built largely from pink volcanic tuff, with a dense cafe and dining culture, serious museums and manuscript collections, Soviet-modernist architecture, and monasteries, wine country and Lake Sevan all within a day's return drive.
• ChurchEtchmiadzin CathedralThe mother cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Vagharshapat, built according to the chronicler Agathangelos after a vision of St Gregory the Illuminator and rebuilt in 483–484.
• MonasteryGeghard MonasteryA monastery at the entrance to the upper Azat valley near Goght, where towering cliffs enclose a main church and chambers cut directly into the rock.
• MonasteryHaghpat MonasteryA 10th-century monastery founded by Queen Khosrovanush on a promontory above the Debed River in Lori, grouped around the Cathedral of Surb Nshan.
• MonasteryKhor Virap MonasteryA walled hilltop monastery on the Ararat plain facing Mount Ararat, built over the pit where tradition holds Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years before Armenia adopted Christianity.
• MuseumMatenadaranYerevan's research institute of ancient manuscripts on Mashtots Avenue, holding about 20,000 manuscripts in Armenian and other languages, with a museum in its 1945–1959 building.
• MonasteryNoravank MonasteryA monastery at the head of the red-cliffed gorge of the Amaghu river in Vayots Dzor, best known for Burtelashen, a two-storey memorial church whose upper floor is reached by narrow steps jutting from its west façade.
• MonasterySevanavankTwo small cross-plan churches, Surb Arakelots and Surb Astvatsatsin, on a peninsula at Lake Sevan's north-western shore that was an island until Soviet-era draining lowered the lake by about 20 metres.
• MonasteryTatev MonasteryTatev's churches and defensive walls stand on a basalt promontory above the Vorotan gorge in Syunik, reached by road or by the Wings of Tatev cable car from Halidzor, and in the 14th century housed a noted university.
• Archaeological siteGarni TempleA Greco-Roman colonnaded temple of grey basalt on a cliff promontory above the Azat River gorge, attributed to King Tiridates I and reconstructed by 1975 after a 1679 earthquake brought it down.
• MonasterySanahin MonasterySanahin's 10th-century monastery in Lori's Alaverdi community, where a library building of 1063 and an academy hall stand among churches, gavits and khachkars.
• MonumentTsitsernakaberd Memorial ComplexThe Armenian Genocide memorial on Tsitsernakaberd hill in Yerevan, completed in 1967, where a 44-metre stele stands beside a ring of twelve slabs enclosing an eternal flame.
• CaveAreni-1 CaveA limestone cave in the Arpa River gorge at Areni where excavators found a winemaking installation of about 4000 BC and a leather shoe dated to 3627–3377 BC.
• MonasteryBgheno-NoravankReduced to a single small church dated 1062, this Syunik monastery stands on a triangular promontory above wooded gorges east of Bardzravan, its walls carved with ornamental borders and biblical reliefs.
• Archaeological siteDvin Archaeological SiteA large mound between Hnaberd and Verin Dvin on the Ararat plain marking Dvin, a capital of early medieval Armenia and seat of the Catholicos until the Mongols destroyed it.
• Archaeological siteErebuni FortressThe hilltop citadel of Arin Berd in south-east Yerevan, founded in 782 BC by the Urartian king Argishti I, whose cuneiform foundation inscription records the name from which Yerevan's own derives.
• MonasteryGoshavankA monastery in the village of Gosh, east of Dilijan, rebuilt under the scholar and lawgiver Mkhitar Gosh and famous for a thirteenth-century khachkar carved by the master Poghos.
• MonasteryHaghartsin MonasteryA monastery of local limestone in the forests of Dilijan National Park, with three churches raised between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and an architecturally rare thirteenth-century refectory.
• MonasteryHayravank MonasteryOn a rocky cliff above Lake Sevan's south-western shore, Hayravank groups a late 9th-century church, a 10th-century chapel and a 12th-century gavit among khachkars and old gravestones.
• MuseumHistory Museum of ArmeniaArmenia's state history museum on Republic Square in Yerevan, founded by parliament in 1919 and holding about 400,000 objects from prehistory to the present, in a complex shared with the National Gallery.
• MonasteryKecharis MonasteryBasalt churches built between the 11th and 13th centuries stand side by side in this monastery in the resort town of Tsaghkadzor, beside a four-column gavit whose south facade carries a sundial.
• MonasteryMatosavankA small monastery completed in 1247 in the forest just west of Dilijan, partly reclaimed by vegetation and reached on foot along the Medieval Monasteries Trail together with Jukhtak Vank.
• MonumentMother Armenia MonumentThe 22-metre copper statue of a woman holding a sheathed sword, raised in 1967 in Victory Park on high ground above central Yerevan, on a pedestal first built for a statue of Stalin.
• ChurchSaint Gayane ChurchBuilt in 630 under Catholicos Ezr I within walking distance of Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Saint Gayane joins a three-aisled basilica to a central dome, and its arched western portico shelters the graves of senior clergy.
• ChurchSaint Hripsime ChurchCatholicos Komitas's church of 618 on the eastern edge of Vagharshapat, raised over the tomb of the martyr Hripsime on a plan of four apses with niches between them and rooms in the corners.
• ChurchShoghakat ChurchShoghakat, meaning 'drop of light', is a domed single-nave church of 1694 near Saint Hripsime in Vagharshapat, built by Prince Aghamal Sorotetsi where tradition places the martyrdom of Hripsime's companions.
• ChurchYereruyk BasilicaThe partly collapsed ruin of an early Christian three-nave basilica on a rocky knoll at Anipemza, on the eastern rim of the Akhurian gorge in Shirak.
• Archaeological siteZorats KarerStanding basalt stones on a plateau 3 km north of Sisian, more than 220 in all and more than 80 of them pierced near the top, set in a central ring and rows around ancient stone tombs.
• MonasteryAkhtala MonasteryA fortified monastery on high ground above Akhtala, bordered by rocky canyons on three sides, whose domed basilica of Saint Astvatsatsin preserves frescoes including a Last Judgment on its west wall.
• FortressAmberd FortressA basalt-walled fortress at 2,300 m on the southern slopes of Mount Aragats, on a triangular cape where the Arkashen and Amberd rivers meet, with the Vahramashen church of 1026 beside it.
• MuseumAram Khachaturian House-MuseumThe Yerevan house the Soviet Armenian government gave the composer Aram Khachaturian in 1945, kept unaltered beside a museum wing that displays his piano, manuscripts, awards and personal belongings.
• Archaeological siteArchaeological Complex of HoromTwo excavated hilltop citadels near Horom village on the Gyumri–Artik road, with walls up to two metres high above a settlement and cemetery used from the Early Bronze Age to the Urartian period.
• GalleryAslamazyan Sisters GalleryA gallery in a 19th-century townhouse on Abovyan Street in Gyumri, opened in 1987 to show the paintings, graphic works and ceramics of the sisters Mariam and Yeranuhi Aslamazyan.
• FortressBerdavan FortressA triangular hilltop castle 1.6 km east of Berdavan village in northern Tavush, its walls braced by eleven semicircular towers above the plain of the Koghbajur river.
• FortressBjni FortressMedieval fortress ruins on a promontory above the right bank of the Hrazdan River in Bjni, a Kotayk village also known for its bottled mineral water, turned into a stronghold by the Pahlavuni princes in the 10th century.
• FortressBlack FortressA round fortress of black tuff on a hill above Gyumri, built in the 19th century when the city was under Russian imperial rule and used over time as military barracks and a prison.
• ChurchCathedral of the Holy MartyrsThe Armenian Catholic cathedral on Gyumri's Victory Avenue, built from 2010 and consecrated in September 2015 to a design by architect Hakob Jivanyan that draws on medieval Armenian forms such as Zvartnots.
• FortressDashtadem FortressA walled stronghold on the southern edge of Dashtadem village, where an octagonal ring of 19th-century bastions encloses an older keep bearing an Arabic inscription of 1174 in Kufic script.
• MonasteryGreat Hermitage of TatevA walled hermitage where the Tatev stream joins the Vorotan river, begun in 1660 to replace an earlier hermitage lost to an earthquake, and screened from view by walnut and fig trees.
• FortressHalidzor FortressA seventeenth-century hermitage on the right bank of the Voghji near Kapan, later a family stronghold of the Melik-Parsadanyans and then rebuilt by David Bek as the main fortress of his rising in Syunik.
• MonasteryHarichavankA monastery on a promontory between two canyons in Harich village near Artik, pairing a 7th-century church of Saint Grigor with a cathedral built in 1201 by the Zakaryan brothers.
• ChurchHoly Saviour's ChurchThe domed church on Gyumri's Vardanants Square, built between 1858 and 1873 under architect Tadevos Andikyan on the model of Ani Cathedral and reconsecrated in December 2024.
• WaterfallJermuk WaterfallA broad waterfall in the spa town of Jermuk that spreads over a wide rock face in many thin streams on its way into the Arpa river, rather than dropping as one heavy column.
• MonasteryJukhtak VankNamed for its pair of churches (jukht means pair in Armenian), this monastery stands in a forest clearing in Dilijan National Park on the outskirts of Dilijan.
• ChurchKarmravor ChurchAshtarak's Karmravor — 'the reddish one' — is a compact 7th-century cross-plan church whose octagonal drum still carries many of the original roof tiles bedded in mortar.
• FortressKayan FortressRuined walls and towers on a hill at the edge of the Debed gorge between the monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin, rebuilt in 1233 by Bishop Hovhannes of Haghpat.
• MonasteryKobayr MonasteryA partly ruined monastery on a forested cliffside of the Debed canyon near Tumanyan, reached only on foot, where fragments of medieval frescoes survive in the main church.
• FortressLori Berd FortressThe ruined walled citadel of a medieval capital near Stepanavan, set on a promontory above the Dzoraget gorge and founded by King David Anhoghin in the 11th century.
• CaveMagellan CaveA cave off the Noravank road near Areni, named after the villager Magellan Arakelyan who found it in 1946 and now visited on short guided tours past stalactites and roosting bats.
• MonasteryMakenyats VankGrouped around the church of Surb Astvatsatsin, built by Prince Grigor Supan in the 9th century, this walled monastery stands at the edge of a gorge in the village of Makenis, south of Lake Sevan.
• Historic siteMausoleum of the Kara Koyunlu Emirs, ArgavandA domed funerary tower of 1413 in the village of Argavand on the outskirts of Yerevan, raised by Emir Pir Husayn of the Kara Koyunlu period and carrying an Arabic dedicatory inscription.
• Archaeological siteMetsamor Archaeological Site and MuseumAn excavated fortress-settlement on a hill beside the Metsamor river near Taronik, occupied from the Bronze Age onwards, with a site museum showing finds from the Early Bronze Age to the late Middle Ages.
• GalleryNational Gallery of ArmeniaArmenia's national art museum on Republic Square, founded in 1921 and housed in a seven-storey block completed in 1980 in the courtyard of the complex it shares with the History Museum.
• ChurchOdzun ChurchA domed basilica in the Lori village of Odzun, first built in the 6th century, with a separate early medieval memorial beside it where tall carved stelae stand in arched openings on a stepped plinth.
• ChurchPtghnavankThe roofless shell of a 6th–7th-century domed hall church in the middle of Ptghni village, just north of Yerevan, with carved window frames and a relief of a lion beneath a palm tree.
• MonasterySaghmosavank MonasteryPrince Vache Vachutyan's monastery on the rim of the Kasagh river gorge at Saghmosavan, where the Church of Zion of 1215 and a gavit added by his son in 1255 face Mount Ara.
• ChurchSaint Hovhannes Church, MastaraMastara's Saint Hovhannes is an early domed church on a square plan, its four projecting apses carrying a polygonal cupola, in a village near Talin that also keeps a carved 13th-century khachkar.
• ChurchSaint Mesrop Mashtots Church, OshakanThe black-tuff basilica in Oshakan built in 1873–79 over the grave of Mesrop Mashtots, creator of the Armenian alphabet, whose tomb lies in a crypt beneath the main altar.
• MuseumSergey Parajanov MuseumA house-museum in Yerevan's Dzoragyugh quarter devoted to the film director Sergey Parajanov, holding 1,766 exhibits from collages and assemblages to film sketches, hats and dolls.
• ChurchSeven Wounds ChurchThe black tuff cathedral of the Holy Mother of God on Gyumri's Vardanants Square, built in 1873–1884 and popularly called Yot Verk, the Seven Wounds, after the sorrows of the Virgin Mary.
• WaterfallShaki WaterfallAn 18-metre waterfall near Sisian in Syunik, where water spills over a ledge formed by solidified basalt lava on the side of the Vorotan gorge, reached by a narrow path from a parking area.
• Archaeological siteShengavit SettlementAn Early Bronze Age town on a promontory over Lake Yerevan, lived in for more than a thousand years from the fourth millennium BC and enclosed by stone walls two to four metres wide.
• FortressSmbataberd FortressThe basalt-walled ruin of a medieval fortress on a ridge between the villages of Artabuynk and Yeghegis, its towers watching over the gorge of the Yeghegis river.
• ChurchSt Thaddeus Church, DdmashenDdmashen's 7th-century church of St Thaddeus the Apostle, a large cruciform church on a rectangular plan whose dome now rests on a sixteen-sided drum rebuilt in 1907 after earthquake damage.
• ChurchTalin CathedralA roofless 7th-century cathedral in Talin's cemetery, its dome and outer walls brought down by earthquakes in 1840 and 1931, with fragments of apostle frescoes still visible in the apse.
• Archaeological siteTeishebaini (Karmir Blur)The excavated citadel of an Urartian town on the Red Hill above the left bank of the Hrazdan in south-west Yerevan, founded by King Rusa II in the seventh century BC and named for the storm god Teisheba.
• MonumentCharents ArchA memorial arch near Voghjaberd on the way to Garni, built in 1957 to a design by architect Rafael Israyelyan and dedicated to the poet Yeghishe Charents, looking out towards Mount Ararat.
• CanyonGnishik CanyonA red-walled gorge in Vayots Dzor cut by the Gnishik river, about 8 km long, with Noravank monastery above its lower end and marked trails in the Arpa Protected Landscape.
• MountainMount AragatsArmenia's highest mountain, a massif in Aragatsotn whose four summits stand around a deep central crater, with the classic ascent starting from Lake Kari.
• MountainMount AzhdahakThe highest summit of the Gegham range, an extinct volcano rising to 3,597 metres on the Kotayk–Gegharkunik boundary, with a small snowmelt lake in its summit crater.
• MountainMount HatisA mountain rising south-east of the village of Kaputan in Kotayk province, climbed as a day hike of about 11 km from the neighbouring village of Kotayk.
• Historic siteOld Goris (Kyores) Cave DwellingsThe abandoned cave quarter of Kyores beside modern Goris, on the left bank of the Vararakn river, where the original town grew in and around a natural cave system.
• Historic siteOld KhndzoreskAn abandoned cave village cut into the slopes of a gorge near Goris, with around 2,000 rock dwellings and a swinging footbridge across the ravine.
• MuseumOrbeli Brothers House-MuseumLevon Orbeli's birthplace in Tsaghkadzor, turned into a house-museum in 1972 for him and his brothers Ruben and Hovsep, three scientists of the Soviet era who were born in the town.
• MonumentSardarapat Memorial ComplexThe memorial complex at Araks village marking the Battle of Sardarapat of May 1918, entered between winged bulls of red tuff, with a bell tower and an ethnography museum at the end of an alley of eagles.
• WaterfallTrchkan WaterfallA 23-metre waterfall on the Chichkhan river in the Bazum mountains of Lori, near the Shirak border, reached on foot or by off-road track from the village of Shirakamut.
• GalleryVanadzor Fine Arts MuseumThe fine arts museum of Vanadzor, founded in 1974 as a branch of the National Gallery of Armenia and housed in a three-storey crescent-shaped building on the city's central roundabout.
• MonasteryVanevan MonasteryTucked into a gorge south of Artsvanist, near the south-eastern shore of Lake Sevan, this monastery's main church of Saint Grigor was built in 903 by Prince Shapuh Bagratuni and his sister Mariam.