ARMENIA PREPARES "NORTHERN GATE" TOURIST CENTRE PROGRAMME

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oct 03 2009, 09:00

The government of Armenia has announced the monastic complexes of
the Lori Region to be tourist centres, having named this region as
"Northern Gate". The Ministry of Economy was given 6 months for
drafting a development programme of this tourist centre and bringing
it to the government.

The priority tasks of this programme are in restoration of cultural
monuments; creation in the territory of the Akhtaly monastic complex
of an arms and medieval arts museum; coverage of the whole territory
of the centre with high-quality Internet communication; construction
of a helicopter landing platform in Odzun village; creation of a
park of fairy tales in the native land of the great Armenian writer
Ovannes Tumanyan -Dsekh village, and many other things.

The government has announced the monastic complexes Sanain, Akhpat,
Akhtala, Odzun, Kobair, Lake Tsover (included into the list of
UNESCO cultural heritage), located in the territory of the Lori
Region, and the rural and town communities, bearing same names,
to be tourist centres.