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This was the street where the residents shopped in its many diverse stores. At its south-western end was the town’s huge covered food market.
The grand Avenue of Yerevan was Mashtots, a few blocks away. The longest street, it was also where the real city life went on.
It reminded them of Van. Therefore they called it called Sevan (Black Van). Centuries later, Bagratuni King Ashot I built the Sevanavank Monastery.
Lake Sevan has a special place in Armenian history. It is the only one of the three great lakes of ancient Armenian, collectively referred to as the Seas of Armenia, which is within the borders of the Republic of Armenia. Lake Urmia is now in Iran and the third one, Lake Van, is in Turkey. It is said that when Armenians came from the areas around Lake Van to Lake Sevan, they found that this lake was dark, almost black.
A fresh water lake, the Sevan is a popular resort with many beaches and different classes of accommodations. Alas this was not the right season. The cabins we saw were empty.
Soon we were at the shore of Lake Sevan which at 1,900 meters above sea level is one of the largest high-altitude lakes in the world.
Here we saw the encampment of the Molokane, Russian “Old Believers” who had left Russia in the early 19th century because they were considered heretics for rejecting the Russian Orthodox Church’s edict regarding some 200 annual fasting days.
As we drove behind the only other vehicle on the road, a yellow mini-bus full of passengers that dangerously carried a large capsule of butane gas on its roof. Green pastures hugged the foothills.
Snow came almost two months too early in September of 2011, dusting the mountains of the Lesser Caucasus in Armenia.
The stone bridge was from the 12th century but now, erosion having eliminated the road on other side of the Debed river gorge, this was a bridge to nowhere.
Alaverdi also has the distinction of having been on the medieval trading highway, the Silk Road. The guide took us to a pleasant small park and showed us a stone bridge that had been built for the “Chinese road.”
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