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Tsiatsan

Tsiatsan is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

The place

Tsiatsan is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tsiatsan

9 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

    Etchmiadzin Cathedral is the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church, located in the city dually known as Etchmiadzin and Vagharshapat, Armenia. Constructed at the turn of the fourth century, it is usually considered the first cathedral built in ancient Armenia, and often regarded as the oldest cathedral in the world.

    3.5 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Saint Gayane Church

    The Saint Gayane Church is a 7th-century Armenian church in Vagharshapat, the religious center of Armenia. It is located within walking distance from the Etchmiadzin Cathedral of 301.

    3.9 km · church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Shoghakat Church

    The Church of Shoghakat was erected in 1694 by Prince Aghamal Sorotetsi during the reign of Catholicos Nahabed I in the city of Vagharshapat, in Armenia's Armavir Province.

    3.9 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

    Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, known in Armenian as simply the Mother See, is the governing body of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is headquartered around Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat, Armenia and is the seat of the Catholicos of All Armenians, the head of the church.

    3.5 km · governing body of the Armenian Apostolic Church · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Gevorkian Theological Seminary

    Gevorkian Theological Seminary, also known as Gevorkian Seminary, is a theological university-institute of the Armenian Apostolic Church opened in 1874. It is located in the town of Vagharshapat within the complex of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia.

    3.6 km · theological school-college in Armenia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Holy Mother of God Cathedral, Vagharshapat

    Church of the Holy Mother of God, is a church located in the town of Vagharshapat, Armenia. It was built in 1767, during the reign of Catholicos Simeon I of Yerevan, on the remains of a 16th-century wooden church.

    3.3 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Manuscript Library

    Vatche and Tamar Manoukian is a manuscript library located in Vagharshapat, Armenia.

    3.7 km · library in Vagharshapat, Armenia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ruben Sevak Museum

    Ruben Sevak Museum is an art museum located in Vagharshapat, Armenia. Opened on 10 September 2013, the museum is housed in the Ghazarapat building of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, adjacent to the Mother Cathedral.

    3.5 km · art museum in Vagharshapat, Armenia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Vagharshapat City Stadium

    Etchmiadzin Stadium, is an abandoned football stadium in Vagharshapat, Armenia. Owned by the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the stadium is located near the southern walls of the Mother See complex.

    3.7 km · football stadium in Vagharshapat, 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.

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Getting to Tsiatsan

Airports
Zvartnots (EVN), 12 km · Shirak (LWN), 72 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 151 km
  • Gyumri → Tsiatsan
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · $9–12
  • Nakhchivan → Tsiatsan
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Tbilisi → Tsiatsan
    174 km · quickest by road, 5h 35m · ₾30–39
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tsiatsan

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 Tsiatsan. 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

    102 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

    200 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    264 km

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Around it

Next door to Tsiatsan

Tsiatsan is 21 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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