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Armenia

3 places
The first nation to adopt Christianity as its state religion, over seventeen centuries ago, Armenia is an ancient, mountainous, much-scattered people with its own alphabet, guarding stone monasteries under the twin cone of Mount Ararat, which now lies just across a closed border.

The Centre & South (Yerevan)2 places

Geghard & GarniPoint · ●●●●○A medieval monastery partly hacked out of the living rock of a cliff, its inner chapels carved directly into the…
YerevanTown · ●●●●○One of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, built largely from local pink volcanic stone, with cafés…

The North (Lake Sevan & the Highlands)1 place

Lake Sevan & DilijanNature · ●●●●○One of the largest high-altitude lakes in the world, a vast blue expanse in the Armenian highlands with a medieval…