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Show starts after nine usually.. classical music is lovely with the dancing fountains.

Republic Square, or Hraparak (City Square) for short; Lenin Square until 1991, is the central square in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The two-part square and the surrounding buildings were built between 1924 and 1977 (Wikipedia).

The Yerevan Cascade is a stairway complex in the Armenian capital. It is considered one of the city's most popular viewing points.[1] The complex was designed by Jim Torosyan, Aslan Mkhitaryan, and Sargis Gurzadyan (Wikipedia).

The bronze sculpture of a woman smoking a cigarette is one of the famous female sculptures created by Fernando Botero. His modern bronze sculptures are known for their disproportionate body volumes, and this bronze female sculpture reflects his style. On August 27, 2012, the famous Colombian sculptor Fernando Botero's "Smoking Woman" work was placed in Cafesjian's "sculpture garden" in the Cascade complex, Yerevan. The sculpture was created in 1987. The sculpture of Yerevan is one of the copies. Unlike Botero's previous works in Yerevan, this sculpture was criticized by many residents, for whom it was unusual to see a naked smoking woman in the center of their capital. But over time, residents got used to the statue.

It consists of a 44-meter high pyramid representing the rebirth of the Armenian nation, twelve slabs grouped in a circle protecting, 1.5 meters deep, the “eternal flame”, a sign of mourning, and a wall where the names of the main towns affected by the Armenian genocide are engraved.

Swan Lake is one of the most famous sights in Yerevan. It is located right in the heart of the city, in a beautiful green garden. The author of the Swan Lake project is the famous architect Gevorg Musheghyan. The lake was named "Swan" in honor of Tchaikovsky's ballet of the same name because the lake is located near the National Academic Ballet Theater. Moreover, in the warm seasons of the year, you can see swans swimming in the lake, and in winter Swan Lake turns into an open skating ring.

The Memory/Fir Alley was founded in 1997 becoming an integral part of the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex. The fir-tree is considered to be the tree of eternity. Presidents of many countries, religious leaders, parliament speakers, spokesmen, members of parliaments, governments and international organizations, world-renowned scientists, cultural figures, philanthropists who visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex, also planted firs, fixing their attitude towards to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.