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Hovtamej

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hovtamej

4 places 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.

  1. 01
    Etchmiadzin Cathedral

    Cultural heritage monument of Armenia

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

    Governing body of the Armenian Apostolic Church

    3.9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holy Mother of God Cathedral, Vagharshapat

    Cultural heritage monument of Armenia

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ruben Sevak Museum

    Art museum in Vagharshapat, Armenia

    3.9 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hovtamej

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 13 km · Shirak (LWN), 71 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 151 km
  • Gyumri → Hovtamej
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · $9–12
  • Nakhchivan → Hovtamej
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tbilisi → Hovtamej
    175 km · quickest by road, 5h 34m · ₾30–40
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hovtamej

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 Hovtamej. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMarshrutkas to Echmiadzin (line 203) start from the central (Kilikiya) bus station in Yerevan, at least every 30 mins, more often in busy periods, and take 20-30 mins.
  • Get aroundZvartnots is 5 km east, back towards Yerevan: take a marshrutka (several alternatives to the 203 for this short hop) or taxi.

From Wikivoyage: Echmiadzin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    76 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    103 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    156 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    201 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    264 km

If you know how people move in Hovtamej – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hovtamej

Hovtamej is 22 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Arshaluysvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia3.7 km
  • Artimetvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia3.6 km
  • Geghakertvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia1 km
  • Tsaghkunkvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia1.4 km
  • Tsiatsanvillage in Armavir Province of Armenia1.2 km