Route: Angel canyon-Tapi berd-Hovhanes Karapet monastery
Rate includes: high qualified guide service, transport services
Duration: 8-9 hours
Angel canyon is located in the Ararat region on the border of the Khosrov national reserve. A very beautiful and majestic place. The area is surrounded by extraordinary rocks.
“TAPI Berd” is often called after the famous Armenian commander of the 10th century Gevorg Marzpetuni. The fortress was built in the first quarter of the 10th century. Located near Yerevan, in the Ararat region, TAPI Berd is an original historical monument with preserved walls, and it is reinforced by round towers at the four corners. Inside the fortress is a 13th-century Church.
Medieval Armenian monastery Complex Hovhannes-Karapet – was built in 1301. it is a domed hall with two-story aisles on both sides of the altar and a dome with a slender, cylindrical drum. On the tympanum of the only Western front entrance and above are carved highly artistic bas-reliefs, the author of which was Vardapet Sargis. To the South-West of the Church is a vaulted, rectangular chapel (XIV Century), which is adjacent to the West of the two-story Church-tomb. The monastery is surrounded by a rectangular fortress wall (1897), which is adjacent to the monastery buildings (1896).