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Monument · Tsitsernakaberd hill, Yerevan, Yerevan

Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex

Ծիծեռնակաբերդ · Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հուշահամալիր · Tsitsernakaberd · Armenian Genocide Memorial · Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex

The 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.

Where it is

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40.1858, 44.4881

Why go

The memorial and the museum are two distinct parts of one visit. Outside, the twelve slabs represent the lost provinces now in Turkey, the flame burns 1.5 metres below the surrounding ground in memory of the victims, and a 100-metre wall lists the towns and villages where massacres and deportations took place. The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, added to the complex in 1995, presents the documentary history, and a tree-lined memorial path runs through the grounds. On 24 April, the day of remembrance, crowds walk up the hill to lay flowers at the flame.

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City

Yerevan

Yerevan 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.

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