Gyumri Travel Guide: Armenia’s Artistic Soul Shaped by Historic Streets, Creative Culture, and Fortress Legacy Most travellers who visit Armenia stop in Yerevan, see the Cascade, eat at a lavash bakery, and then leave for Georgia. A fraction of them drive the two hours north to Gyumri. Those who do rarely describe it in neutral terms. The city is Armenia’s second-largest urban centre, but it carries the energy of a place that has decided its identity is worth protecting, regardless of how much the world around it changes. The black tuff stone streets of the Kumayri district, the brooding circular fortress on the city’s northern hill, the dry wit of…