Yerevan Cascade
Soviet-era stone staircase of fountains and terraces, revived as an open-air sculpture museum.
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This guide to the Yerevan Cascade follows a half-built staircase of terraces and fountains that Soviet crews abandoned in 1988, after an earthquake struck the north and the union itself began to unravel. It picks up the story fourteen years later with Gerard Cafesjian, a Brooklyn-born lawyer who made his fortune in legal publishing and then turned to the unfinished monument his parents' homeland had left behind. You'll hear how his foundation's crews cut escalators through the hillside and filled its bare concrete courtyards with sculpture. Along the way, look for the bronze Botero cat sprawled by the entrance before you start to climb.
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