The Porch of Neghuts Monastery
The porches are unique structures in the Armenian architecture. The porches reproduce the forms of the Armenian national houses developed during many centuries and present half-civic or half-ecclesiastical structures of the national architectural style. The Armenian architects mostly used the four-pillar architectural style to construct the porches. The porch of Neghuts St. Astvatsatsin Monastery belongs to that kind of porches. During […]
May 28 – The Day of Independence in Armenia
Article from TourInfo Magazine The Heroic Battles and the Victories May is a month of victories for the Armenians. The history shows that the Armenian people erected all the most important victories in May. And now continuing the tradition of spring holidays, on May 28 we celebrate the independence of the First Republic of Armenia. Armenia lost its […]
Yerevan Opera Theater
Yerevan Opera Theater: Alexander Tamanian’s project of the building won the first prize at an international exhibition in Paris in 1937. The first performance that opened opera’s new building in 1940 was Alexander Spendiarian’s “Almast”.
Yerevan Retrospectives
An Artsakh woman in traditional dress
Hair style is traditional. She wears a Cote, silver drams rim, white cotton handkerchief. The dress is bounded in red silk piece or sateen. Occupational clothing is of dark green silk. Three skirt outerwear is also made of silk and the width is 2 sm. Sleeves are formed and ornamented with silver endings. The wings […]
Armenian Petroglyphs (rock-art)
The remains of Rock-Art have been found in over 120 countries. These are the images carved or pecked into a rock face using stone tools. Human-like (anthropomorphic), animal and bird (zoomorphic) images are common, as are circles, spirals, dots, lines, and other geometric and abstract forms. They have great cognitive value and tell us myths […]
Saint Vardanants Day
The Commemoration of the Heroes The Armenian Church marks the holiday of St. Vardanants on Thursday preceding Fat Tuesday (Bun Barekendan) which is celebrated on the eve of the Great Lent. The Holy Vardanants festival is celebrated in memory of Armenian Commander Vardan Mamikonyan and his comrades-in-arms who martyred in the Battle of Avarayr against […]
Ancient Armenian Recipes
The Secrets of Beauty of Armenian Women The older is mankind, the older is the history of cosmetic products. It is difficult to say when people had applied to cosmetic products, but one thing is beyond doubt; parallel to the development of human self-consciousness people’s desire to look beautiful impelled them to search in the […]
Taraz – Armenian National Dress
Unique Sample of Armenian Culture In Armenian reality national dress known as garb (taraz) is one of the traditional elements of culture and lifestyle. Dress, clothing, wear; these words are synonymous with taraz; but it also expresses meanings of fashion and manner. It includes both the elements of vestment and the ornaments framing to them or […]