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Geghard Monastery
A UNESCO partially rock-cut medieval monastery with extraordinary acoustics, said to house the spear that pierced Christ's side at the crucifixion.
18 km · about 20 min drive
Kotayk, Armenia · Asia
Akunk is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Zar, 55km from Dilijan National Park.
Akunk is a town located in Kotayk, Armenia. With a population of 2,396, it is an important destination in Asia.
On a road trip, Akunk sits in Armenia. It's in the Asia/Yerevan time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Akunk to your route.
Akunk (Armenian: Ակունք, also Romanized as Akunq; formerly until 1946, Bashgyukh) is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, located 6 km northeast of Abovyan and situated at the foot of Mount Hatis. The village was founded in 1829 by Armenian immigrants from Persia and Western Armenia, while the currentRead more
population is Armenian and Yazidi. The local economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, based primarily on grain farming, orchard cultivation, and cattle-breeding. Akunk has a school, house of culture, library, and east of the village is a shrine of Poghos-Petros of the Late Middle Ages. A cyclopean fortress is also nearby.
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Akunk is located in Kotayk, Armenia, Asia. The coordinates are 40.2667 latitude, 44.6861 longitude.
Akunk has a population of approximately 2,396 people, making it a town in Armenia.
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landmark
A UNESCO partially rock-cut medieval monastery with extraordinary acoustics, said to house the spear that pierced Christ's side at the crucifixion.
18 km · about 20 min drive
ancient ruins
The only standing Greco-Roman colonnaded temple in the former Soviet Union, a 1st-century pagan shrine overlooking the dramatic Azat River gorge.
18 km · about 20 min drive
ancient ruins
Haunting ring of 7th-century columns from a collapsed circular cathedral, framed by Mount Ararat on the Yerevan–Etchmiadzin road; a UNESCO World Heritage ruin.
32 km · about 35 min drive
castle
A 7th-century fortress with an 11th-century church on a triangular spur at 2,300m on the slopes of Mount Aragats, wedged between two river gorges. Ruined by the Mongols in 1236 and never rebuilt.
41 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
An iconic Armenian monastery at the foot of Mount Ararat where Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years, offering the most famous view of Ararat.
44 km · about 50 min drive
national park
Armenia's Little Switzerland, a lush forested national park in the Lesser Caucasus with medieval monasteries hidden among beech and oak forests.
55 km · about 65 min drive
natural wonder
The Jewel of Armenia, one of the largest high-altitude freshwater lakes in the world at 1,900 meters with the medieval Sevanavank Monastery on its peninsula.
57 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
A 10th-13th century monastery of three churches hidden in beech forest above Dilijan, with a vaulted 1248 refectory. The setting, deep in trees on a mountainside, is what sets it apart.
58 km · about 65 min drive
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