Kond Pedestrian Tunnel
Half-kilometer Soviet-era passage burrowing beneath a hilltop village of stone houses and hidden cellars.
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This guide follows the Kond Pedestrian Tunnel in Yerevan, the half-kilometer Soviet passage architect Alexander Tamanyan cut beneath Kond hill in 1936 to link Saryan Street with Hrazdan Gorge. It lingers on the hilltop neighborhood above, whose stone houses once sheltered Persian and Armenian nobility and later housed the city's own mayor, with families now spanning four generations under one roof. You'll hear about the cellars behind unmarked doors, where lavash is still baked in a tonir and grape leaves pickled every October. Listen for how that old hospitality still shapes even the neighborhood's newest kitchen.
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