Saturday, March 7 2020 13:34

ArmInfo. On March 7 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan familiarized himself with the progress of repair work of Stepanavan-Gularak road leading to Lori-Bird  fortress.

He posted the video of the visit on his Facebook page.  According to the Prime Minister, this year will mark the 1000th anniversary of the fortress, which could become an important center for tourism. He noted that other cultural and historical monuments,  such as Haghpat, Sanahin, Odzun and others, are located in the  region, and it is necessary to modernize the infrastructure leading  to them.  During the familiarization, the Prime Minister instructed  the Ministry of Territorial Development and Infrastructures to  actively cooperate with the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture   and Sports on this issue.

In turn, the Minister of Territorial Administration and  Infrastructures of the Republic of Armenia Suren Papikyan presented  the history of the Lori-Berd Fortress, noting that the development of  infrastructures will attract more tourists and schoolchildren to this  region. 

Lori Bird is a medieval fortress in the Lori region of Armenia, on  the left bank of the Dzoraget River, 4 km east of the city of  Stepanavan. In the period from 1065 to 1113, Lori was the center of  the Armenian Lori (Tashir-Dzoraget) kingdom.  Founded by Armenian  King David. Currently, only the ruins of some structures of the  fortress have been preserved. Earlier, the Lori bird was located on  the territory enclosed by deep gorges of the Miskhan and Dzoraget  rivers. In the X century a fortress was founded, the citadel of which  occupied an area of 9 hectares and was protected by a powerful  defensive wall about 200 meters long. Along the wall was a moat  filled with water. The citadel gates were installed in the  northeastern part of the fortress. The city surrounding the citadel  covered an area of about 25 hectares, which was also surrounded by  walls, from which only the remains of the foundations were preserved.