The territory of the National Park and its buffer zone contains 1489 historical and cultural monuments (including natural monuments), among these are the following:

  • 4 natural monuments;
  • 5 Stone Age ancient locations;
  • 19 cave shelters;
  • 1 town settlement;
  • 31 settlements;
  • 94 village settlements;
  • 8 ethnographic houses;
  • 78 fortresses;
  • 2 towers;
  • 6 bridges;
  • 2 traveler shelters;
  • 9 water mill complexes and 17 separate mills:
  • 11 oil-mils;
  • 3 water channels and water distributing systems;
  • 2 groups of rock paintings/carvings;
  • 3 cuneiform records;
  • 1 rock carved worship site;
  • 135 churches;
  • 8 monasteries;
  • 89 chapels;
  • 5 Dragon stone monuments;
  • 1 menhir;
  • 6 columns;
  • 279 Khachkar/stone-cross/groups;
  • 159 separate Khachkars;
  • 2 water-spring monuments;
  • 25 memorials devoted to World War II;
  • 2 monuments in memory of well known people;
  • 107 burial grounds;
  • 14 Separate well preserved burial places;
  • 252 grave yards;
  • 71 tombstone groups;
  • 33 separate well preserved tombstones.

The listed monuments represent almost all types of secular and clerical monuments introduced in the region; from the chronological perspective they include the period from at least 15th millennium BC to the 20th century, i.e. from the Stone Age to modern times. Monuments are situated unevenly around Lake Sevan, being at their densest in the West, south-west and especially south of the Lake and often making diverse time and natural monument combinations (Bronze-Iron Age Cyclopean Fortresses accompanied with settlements, mausoleum fields, village settlements, churches and cemeteries) representing a unique historical-geographical and cultural environment.

 

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