Stepanavan as a resort town is famous for its pine forests, which produce phytoncides during the pollen season and are important for health. Stepanavan’s bracing air quality increases in May-June, when the pine pollen season starts. Pine trees produce essential oils which have bacteria killing quality and are very useful for people suffering from respiratory illnesses.

Come to Stepanavan, walk in the pine alley, which leads to the resort part of the town, breath fully and feel the pure clean bracing air, which will get into your lungs and sterilize them.

Moreover, combine the pleasant with beneficiary. This is not only extremely healthy, but also very beautiful!

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US Ambassador Heffern’s Visit to Stepanavan, Armenia

US Ambassador Heffern’s Visit to Stepanavan

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Stepanavan town, in order to recover its old traditions of organizing festivals,  celebrated Flower Festival (Tsaghkazard) and Vardavar (Water festival) on July 31st., 2011. Dozens of organizations and companies, schools and kindergardens represented their flower decorations. Local children’s dance groups were dancing proudly on the square making everyone enjoy the beautiful holiday.

Hundreds of citizens, tourists and visitors were enjoying the beautiful flowers and music while the firemen drenched everyone with water as a simbol of the holiday and also to make everyone cool down from strong heat. For more photos, please visit my page onhttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150336829709993&set=o.181051254182&type=1#!/group.php?gid=65620612036.

Stepanavan’s day was celbrated on November 6, 2010. In the past Stepanavan has been called Lore, the Jalaloghli, that is why this event was called “Lore-Jalaloghli – Stepanavan”. This day was a double holiday as it was not only the town’s celebration, but also the House of Culture was renovated and reopened after 22 years and newly built sport school was opened, which was attended by President Serzh Sargsyan, Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan, Vardan Vardanyan, Minister of Urban Development, LoriGovernor Aram Kocharyan, famous artist Sos Sargsyan and many other honorable guests.  More…

Oct. 10, 2010 It is already a week that mushroom picking season has started in Stepanavan. Locals and visitors taking their pails, wearing rubber boots and jackets run to the wild mountains and forests to pick up mushrooms early in the mornings. The joy of finding each hidden mushroom under the pine trees brings joy to everyone. Evenings follow with making piroshkis, pickles and great dishes for dinner.

Discover magnificent Lori, come to rest in Stepanavan!! Newly opened hotels, beautiful nature, and freshes air will force you stay longer and clean up your lungs! To read about the sightseeing in the region, for any information visit my page on Facebook. For photos visit Here .

Stepanavan, as a pearl of the Lori region, the richest and most beautiful in Armenia, has a lot to offer its visitors. Through my guidebook, I want to acquaint all Armenians and the world about numerous interesting spots and corners, sites and sacred places; without visits to which, a trip to Armenia would be incomplete.

Mysteries and Sacred Sites of Stepanavan District   Travel Guide

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In Armenia, they call people hailing from the region of Lori as the “simple-minded Loretsi”. The hidden meaning of this nickname is that residents of Lori are pure and untainted, sincere and unspiteful folk and a people possessing a rich spiritual inner world; similar to their unblemished natural surroundings. Of the many treasures dotting the countryside, of particular note is the city of Stepanavan, siitting on the heights above of Dzoraget River and nestled on the slopes of deeply forested mountains. What makes Stepanavan one of the country’s most gorgeous of summer resort areas is its sunny days, mild humid climate and abundance of green spaces.

Knock on any door in Stepanavan and you’ll be welcomed inside to find out, “whose son or relative you are.” Then the residents will offer you cheese and sour cream and recount the golden days of the past and the concerns of today. The old folk remember the time when, come the summer, the town would fill up with tourists and those with summer homes who’d arrive from all corners of the Soviet Union, especially Georgia and Russia. More…

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