Aparan
Aparan is a town in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, about 50 kilometers northwest of the capital Yerevan.
Aparan is a town in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, about 50 kilometers northwest of the capital Yerevan. As of the 2011 census, the population of the town was 6,451. As per the 2016 official estimate, Aparan had a population of around 5,300. As of the 2022 census, the population of the town was 5,803.
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Worth seeing in and around Aparan
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Aparan Basilica
The Kasagh Basilica or the Aparan Basilica, formally known as the Holy Cross Church, is an early medieval Armenian church in the town of Aparan in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is dated by scholars to the fourth or fifth century.
500 m · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Aparan has a palace of culture, a public library, a music school, and a school of art run by the municipality. There are many places of cultural interest in the town :
- 01Kasagh Basilica of the Holy Cross
- 02Renaissance Memorial Complex
Erected in 1978, the memorial complex was built in memory of those who died in the Armenian Genocide, the 1918 Battle of Aparan, and World War II.
From Wikivoyage: Aparan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Aparan
- Airports
- Shirak (LWN), 46 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 49 km · Tbilisi (TBS), 130 km
- Gyumri → Aparan49 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · $5–7
- Yerevan → Aparan48 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · $4.5–6
- Tbilisi → Aparan128 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · ₾24–31
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Aparan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aparan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Aparan is 48 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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