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Wine Tour to Armenia: Get a Portion of Wine Mood #winemood from Azimuth Travel
If you are a connoisseur and a wine lover and are in search of new impressions, then you definitely need to make a wine tour to Armenia, and this will undoubtedly become one of the most outstanding events for you. Here you will find a festival of tastes, flavors, flowers and "wine" stories.
Our way lays to the region of Aragatsotn, where we begin our journey from the monasteries of Hovhannavank, Saghmosavank, visit to the church of St. Mesrop Mashtots, and the monument to the Armenian alphabet, at the end of the tour - the wine-brandy factory ArmAs where excursion, tasting and a gala dinner await us.
Excursion starts from the walk through the picturesque vineyards and fruit gardens that stretch across the plantation. At the end of your study tour, you can participate in wine degustation in the Tasting room or on the balcony, from which you can enjoy an amazing view of the majestic Ararat.
The tour price includes:
- Transport service of the tour in comfortable transport,
- 1 lunch and 1 dinner,
- The tour guide service,
- Wine tasting
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10:00 Departure from Yerevan
11:00 Monastery complex Hovhannavank 4th century
The monastery complex Hovhannavank was built here in the 4th century on the site of a pagan temple. Later at the same place, Gregory the Illuminator on the relics of St. John the Baptist built basilica church of St. John the Baptist, thus the monastery was called Hovhannavank. There were schools of different educational types, where students studied philosophy, music, and philology. There were also scribers, who copied various manuscripts.
Today these manuscripts have survived to the present day and now are housed in Matenadaran. In the 17th century here lived and scribed the historian Zakaria Kanakerzi, who wrote the story of Hovhannavank. The activity of Hovhannavank stopped at the beginning of the XIX century.
12:00 Monastery Sagmosavank, the date of foundation 1215-1235 years.
The monastery is located in the village of Sagmosavank, on the right bank of the Kasagh River. According to tradition, the monastery was founded by Gregory the Illuminator. In 1215 Prince Vache Vachutyan built the main church of Sagmosavank St. Sion and gave it to the village. It is outwardly rectangular, internally cross-shaped structure with four angular two-story sacristies. The facade of the church is decorated with Armenian niches. The monastery was surrounded by a semicircular gate with fortified walls. In 1267 Vardan Avereltsi founded a school in Sagmosavank. In 1267 Gevorg Skevrazi rewrote the collection Tonapatchar, which is currently in Echmiadzin.
Grigor Tatevatsi for some time taught at the school of Sagmosavank. Sagmosavank was an educational center. Several written and rewritten manuscripts were preserved here. The writers of Sagmosavank were entrusted to rewrite the manuscripts of Metzopavank and Sanahin.
13:00 The village of Oshakan, the church of St. Mesrop Mashtots built in the 4th century, a monument dedicated to the Armenian alphabet.
St. Mesrop Mashtots is the creator of the Armenian alphabet, Armenian language and literature, the founder of Armenian school, the first teacher of the Armenian language. After his death, Prince Vahan Amatuni and commander Amayak Mamikonyan moved his body to Oshakan, where three years later, in 443, Vahan Amatuni built a chapel.
To honor Mashtots memory, Catholicos Hovsep instructed Koryun to write about the life and creative activity of Mesrop Mashtots. In 1875-79 Catholicos Gevorg IV built a new church of the basilic type in place of the old chapel. In the direction of the altar the mausoleum of Mesrop Mashtots is located (433), it is considered a sacred place for pilgrimage. On his tomb the ordination of Armenian monks is performed.
14:00 Lunch in the tavern Amberd.
16:00 Tour to the picturesque vineyards and fruit gardens of the wine-brandy factory ArmAs. Wine degustation.
18:00 Dinner on ArmAs balcony overlooking Mount Ararat.
20:00 Arrival in Yerevan.