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Cascade Yerevan

We simply cannot imagine Yerevan  without its main showplace - Grand Cascade. This is a majestic harmony of systematically ordered and artistically decorated stairs, sculptures, fountains, flower beds on the slopes of the Kanaker hills, which in general create a complex monumental structure.

The location of the Cascade is behind the building of Opera and Ballet Theater, between Mesrop Mashtots Avenue, Baghramyan and Moskovyan Streets. At the beginning of the Cascade there is a small square where we can see the monument erected to the Architect Tamanyan - pondering the main plan of his life. The grandiose staircase is built of beige tuff - to connect the lower and upper parts of the city.

The Grand Cascade is like the huge Babylonian pyramid, at the very top of which an obelisk of Revived Armenia is installed, with ornaments on Urartian motifs.

The building of Grand Cascade started in the 1970s, but it was never completed because of the Karabakh war.

 

Gafeschyan Center is a center for contemporary art in the Cascade Complex (Kentron District). It was opened on November 9, 2009. Gafeschyan Arts Center was founded by American-Armenian businessman Gerard Gafeschyan and represents his collection of contemporary art. The architect of the Cascade Complex is Alexander Tamanyan.

The goal of the Center is to show magnificent examples of contemporary art in Armenia and present the best examples of Armenian culture to the world community. The Cafescian Arts Center collection includes works by such famous artists as Peter Woituk, Dale Ciully, Jennifer Bartlett, Fernando Botero, David Breuer-Waley, Jong Hong, Barry Flanagan, Jaume Plenza, Francois Xavier Lalan, Joana Vaskconcelos and etc.

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