France Square — Attraction in Yerevan

France Square in Armenia is one of Yerevan's biggest and busiest intersections, and where Sayat Nova Street and Mashtots Street meet together. It is located between Cascade and the Opera building. The square was renamed French Square in honor of friendly relations between these two contries. Its opening took place on September 30, 2006, in the presence of both presidents, Armenian president Robert Kocharyan and French president Jacques Chirac. The design and architecture used here are so similar to the streets of Paris in France, Likes all pots around street or flowerpots, street lights and etc. When one is coming back from Cascade, here's a...

This is not really a real square you could walk into or something. There's traffic everywhere with a Rodin statue located in the middle of the big crossroads to give it a feel of a square:] but it's practically impossible to walk to the statue either because of all the cars around. So all you can do is observe it from a distance or look like a moron running through traffic to go...

Yerevan is quite an interesting city (as well as Armenia as a country) and in many places are statues of world knows armenians. Here in France Square we have a statue of Charles Aznavour, an armenian born in France. Place is really pretty and fountain is a welcome sight in hot Yerevan summers. Just behind is big Moskva cinema, its architecture remind me of some Moscow...