Lovers’ Park
Japanese-style garden of ponds and clipped trees, rebuilt as a philanthropist's gift to the city.
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This guide to Lovers' Park in Yerevan opens on a padlocked, decaying Soviet park in 2005, and the Swiss-Armenian businessman Albert Boghossian, who decided to rebuild it entirely at his own expense. It follows the design competition he ran at Yerevan's engineering university and the Swiss landscape architect Pierre Rambach, who shaped the ponds and stepless paths that followed. Wedding parties now book the four-hundred-seat amphitheater for photos against those same ponds.
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