Ptghni
Ptghni, is a village located in the Kotayk Province of Armenia along the left bank of the Hrazdan River.
Ptghni, is a village located in the Kotayk Province of Armenia along the left bank of the Hrazdan River. Ptghni's mayor Arakel Virabyan was the only mayor of the village for more than 30 years. Ptghni was founded in 1831. The village has a school, kindergarten, house of culture, and a library. The local economy is dependent on agriculture and local inhabitants primarily grow grapes, melons, gourds, and breed cattle. Within the village are the remains of fortress walls and Ptghavank of the 6th to 7th-century.
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Worth seeing in and around Ptghni
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.
- 01Ptghnavank
Ptghnavank or Ptghni church is located in the village of Ptghni in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
0 m · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ptghni
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 20 km · Shirak (LWN), 82 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 140 km
- Gyumri → Ptghni86 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $10–14
- Nakhchivan → PtghniTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ganja → Ptghni158 km · quickest by road, 8h 48m · $24–34
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ptghni
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 Ptghni. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou may be denied entry and turned around at the border, which, if you've come by marshrutka/minibus, means that you will be stranded until you are able to find a new bus or hitchhike back to Tbilisi.
- Get inThere are marshrutkas from Tbilisi to the border for about 17 lari to Yerevan.
- Get inAlso, several marshrutkas leave daily from Akhalkalaki into Armenia (Gyumri).
- Get inMarshrutkas pass through Ninotsminda, so it is possible to jump on there.
- Get inIn both directions, marshrutka leaves quite early in the morning.
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Next door to Ptghni
Ptghni is 11 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.