Taronik
Taronik is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia.
Taronik is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The Iron Age settlement of Metsamor site is located only 1 km southwest of Taronik.
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Worth seeing in and around Taronik
3 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.
- 01Quba Mere Diwane
Quba Mêrê Dîwanê is the world's largest Yazidi temple. It is located in the Armenian village of Aknalich, in the province of Armavir, where the Yezidis are the largest minority.
3.3 km · Yazidi Temple · Wikipedia - 02Metsamor site
The Metsamor site is an archaeological site in the Ararat Plain region of Armenia. It includes the remains of settlements and structures dating from the Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Early Iron Ages.
1.3 km · remains of an old fortress located to the southwest of the Armenian village of Taronik, in the Armavir Province. · Wikipedia - 03Lake Akna
Lake Akna is a small lake located in the Ararat plain west of Ejmiatsin in Armenia. The area of the lake is 0.07 km2, while its maximum depth is 9.4 meters.
2.9 km · lake in Armenia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Taronik
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 17 km · Shirak (LWN), 74 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 150 km
- Gyumri → Taronik79 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $9–12
- Nakhchivan → TaronikTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Tbilisi → Taronik181 km · quickest by road, 5h 42m · ₾31–41
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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 Taronik
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 Taronik. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Taronik
Taronik is 27 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.