PAK SHUGA

Situated on the site of the old Persian bazaar, just before reaching the Hrazdan, south of Mashtots Avenue, opposite the Goy Mosque, it has little in the way of an oriental market. Built in the Soviet era in an Assyrian-Urartan style, this covered market is more reminiscent of Yerevan's Soviet past than the era of the Sardars of Persia. It has been renovated and has lost some of its folklore, but with the sun-drenched productions of the Armenian land, it has a lot of colour and flavour, as the fruit and vegetables are of excellent quality.