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ANCIENT ARMENIAN TEMPLE SPARED CAFE
Transitions Online
March 11 2014
Armenian officials have canceled plans to build a cafe near the Garni
temple, the country's only pagan place of worship that survived the
country's conversion to Christianity, according to ArmeniaNow.com. One
of the country's most popular attractions, the Greco-Roman temple
built in the first century B.C. was restored in the 1970s after being
destroyed in a 17th-century earthquake.
ArmeniaNow writes that activists opposed the Culture Ministry's
initial plan to open a cafe close to the temple in order to attract
more tourists and more revenues. Opponents argued it would diminish
the touristic appeal of the site and that current revenues should be
enough for maintenance works.
Deputy Culture Minister Arev Samuelyan confirmed to the online
publication Hetq that the plan has been canceled, according to
ArmeniaNow.
Garni and the nearby Geghard monastery complex are two of the country's
biggest tourist draws. The state cultural heritage agency estimates
that 200,000 tourists visited Garni with its temple, ancient fortress,
and bath house in 2013, although that figure seems high compared with
the estimated total of 677,000 tourists countrywide in the first nine
months of the year, Hetq notes.
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Transitions Online
March 11 2014
Armenian officials have canceled plans to build a cafe near the Garni
temple, the country's only pagan place of worship that survived the
country's conversion to Christianity, according to ArmeniaNow.com. One
of the country's most popular attractions, the Greco-Roman temple
built in the first century B.C. was restored in the 1970s after being
destroyed in a 17th-century earthquake.
ArmeniaNow writes that activists opposed the Culture Ministry's
initial plan to open a cafe close to the temple in order to attract
more tourists and more revenues. Opponents argued it would diminish
the touristic appeal of the site and that current revenues should be
enough for maintenance works.
Deputy Culture Minister Arev Samuelyan confirmed to the online
publication Hetq that the plan has been canceled, according to
ArmeniaNow.
Garni and the nearby Geghard monastery complex are two of the country's
biggest tourist draws. The state cultural heritage agency estimates
that 200,000 tourists visited Garni with its temple, ancient fortress,
and bath house in 2013, although that figure seems high compared with
the estimated total of 677,000 tourists countrywide in the first nine
months of the year, Hetq notes.
http://www.tol.org/client/article/24208-hitches-hit-giant-kashagan-oil-project-serbian-doctors-strike-over-wage-cuts.html