Vernashen
Vernashen is a village in the Yeghegnadzor Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia.
Vernashen is a village in the Yeghegnadzor Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia. The 13th-century fortress of Proshaberd and the Spitakavor Monastery of 1321 are located near Vernashen.
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Worth seeing in and around Vernashen
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.
- 01Spitakavor Monastery
Spitakavor Monastery, is a 14th-century Armenian monastic complex, 7 kilometres north of Vernashen village, near the town of Yeghegnadzor of Vayots Dzor Province, Armenia.
4 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia - 02Gladzor University
University of Gladzor was a medieval Armenian university, one of the two "great centres of learning" along with the University of Tatev that were "essentially of a single tradition." It was established around 1280 by Nerses of Mush, a student of Vardan Areveltsi, and operated until 1340 and "left behind a rich intellectual heritage". The university grew out of the monastic center of learning of the Aghberts or Gladzor Monastery in the region of Vayots Dzor.
2.2 km · a historical medieval university in Armenian culture · Wikipedia - 03Tanahat
Tanahat Monastery, is an 8th-century monastery 7 km south-east of Vernashen village in the Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia. It was built between the 8th and 13th centuries.
3.2 km · Monastery · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vernashen
- Airports
- Nakhchivan (NAJ), 68 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 91 km · Ganja (GNJ), 133 km
- Yerevan → Vernashen84 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · $10–14
- Gyumri → Vernashen170 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · $19–27
- Nakhchivan → VernashenTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Vernashen
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 Vernashen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMarshrutkas and buses can be caught going as far as the Iranian border or Nagorno-Karabakh to the south.
- Get inMarshrutka and share taxis from Yerevan to Yeghegnadzor leave between 08:00 and 18:00 from a street close to the Gortsaranayin metro station.
- Get inOnce there, turn left, cross the street, walk about 100m, and you should see some marshrutkas lined up across the street.
- Get inMarshrutkas typically leave every hour, but it’s more likely they leave once mostly full.
- Get inBuses and marshrutkas to other destinations in the south of Armenia (such as Goris or Stepanakert), depart from a bus station on Sevan St adjacent to Yerevan's Sasuntsi Davit metro station.
From Wikivoyage: Yeghegnadzor, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Vernashen
- Gladzorvillage in Vayots Dzor Province of Armenia2.2 km
- Gladzor Municipalityrural community in Vayots Dzor, Armenia1.6 km