Yerevan Walking Tour

During this Yerevan Walking tour you will discover the secrets of the «pink pearl» of Armenia. This is how Yerevan is called by the locals as this magical city is built of different shades of tuff stone quarried in Armenia.
Though Yerevan is a modern dynamic Euopean capital it has a history that dates back 2800 years. Founded in 782B.C. Yerevan is reputedly one of the oldest cities in the world to have been continuously inhabited.
We start our exploration with the Republic Square with it magnificent buildings enhanced by singing fountains. Walking down the Abovyan Street, one of the oldest streets in Yerevan which was on the Great Silk Road. We continue to the Northern Avenue built for the pedestrians and considered the most modern part of the city.
We reach the Opera House, an real architecural gemstone. Visiting the Cascade, a huge white stairwell built into a Yerevan hillside in the 1970s, with water fountains running down them, all reminescent of a natural cascade in a river or stream.
We will walk down the Baghramyan Avenue to see the Parliament House, the Presidential Palace, the «Lover'sPark». By Yerevan subway we will continue to the southern part of the city in order to visit the biggest church of Armenia — St. Gregory the Illuminatior's church built in 2001 to commemorate Armenia's 1700the anniversary of Christianity.
From here it's a few minutes walk to the City Bazaar, a real museum of food. You are greeted by vendors asking you to sample their goods – from delicious homemade dried fruits stuffed with nuts, paper thin fruit ‘lavash’, ‘sujukh’ (local walnuts threaded on string and dipped in grape molasses! Simply yum!) right through to fresh ‘lavash’ bread and organic fruit and vegetables and stalls selling herbs and spices.