Duration: | 5 Hour(s) - 0 Minute(s) |
Tour Category: | Half Day Tour |
Garni Temple—The first traces of human occupation date back to the 3rd millennium BC and are concentrated in easily defensible terrain at one of the bends of the Azat River. In the 8th century BC, the Urartian king Argishti I conquered the area. The first literary testimony to the existence of a fortress on the spur crowning the site of Garni comes from the Roman historian Tacitus and dates from the middle of the 1st century AD.
Garni became the last refuge of King Mithridates of Armenia, where his son-in-law and nephew Rhadamistus assassinated him and his family. Several constructions and buildings have been identified within the enclosed area, including a two-story royal summer palace, a bath complex, a church built in AD 897, a cemetery, and the site's most famous and best-preserved edifice, a peristyle Greco-roman temple built in the Ionic order.
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