Temple of Garni, Armenia
The Temple of Garni is one of the oldest sights in Armenia worth to be seen once in a lifetime and almost anyone who comes to Armenia visits Garni, thinking it is the 76 AD temple and Roman style baths.
Many learn when they visit that the cyclopic stone walls that surround the royal summer residence and temple are were in fact first laid in the 3rd millennium BC by ancestral Armenians who developed the region into one of the greatest metallurgical and trading powers in Mesopotamia and Asia Minor.
It is a reconstructed classical Hellenistic temple in Garni, Armenia and the only Greco-Roman colonnaded building or temple in Armenia and the former Soviet Union.
Epic Armenia Culture & Adventure Route © Monika Newbound
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