Ashtarak
Ashtarak is a town in the Ashtarak Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, located on the left bank of Kasagh River along the gorge, 20 km northwest of the capital Yerevan. It is the administrative centre of the province and an important crossroad of routes for the Yerevan–Gyumri–Vanadzor triangle. Wikipedia
Population 21,600 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Armenia
Getting there
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Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide-
Perch Proshyan House-Museum Museum · 180 m - Nerses Ashtaraktsi Monument · 460 m
- Norayr Sisakyan Monument · 800 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Getting around
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