Noratus
Noratus is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near the town of Gavar.
Noratus is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near the town of Gavar. The village has a rich historical past, and is famous for the Noratus cemetery, the largest surviving cemetery in the world featuring khachkars.
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Worth seeing in and around Noratus
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.
- 01Noraduz cemetery
Noratus Cemetery, also spelled Noraduz, is a medieval cemetery with many early khachkars located in the village of Noratus in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, near Gavar and Lake Sevan, 90 km north of Yerevan. The cemetery has the largest cluster of khachkars in Armenia.
700 m · cemetery in Armenia · 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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Dari Glukh
Small fortification at the edge of town.
- 02Hayravank Monastery
A rarely visited monastery overlooking Lake Sevan.
- 03Noratus Khachkar Cemetery
20 km south of Sevan, near Gavar, is Noratus village, with the largest khachkar cemetery in the world.
From Wikivoyage: Noratus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Almav
From Wikivoyage: Noratus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Noratus
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 71 km · Ganja (GNJ), 104 km · Shirak (LWN), 119 km
- Yerevan → NoratusTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Gyumri → NoratusTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ganja → NoratusTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Noratus
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 Noratus. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you just want to go to the "kghzi" peninsula with the most popular beaches during the summer, then marshrutkas make frequent trips from Yerevan for cheap.
- Get inThroughout the year you can take the Ijevan/Dilijan/Noyemberyan marshrutka and hop off at the lake as well, or depending on where you want to go in the region you can take a van directly to Vardenis or Martuni or Kavar.
- Get aroundAlways offer a little tip in return—the equivalent of a marshrutka ride is common.
From Wikivoyage: Lake Sevan Region, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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