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Jolfa

06/18/2010

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Step 6/21: Iran - Jolfa

Jolfa photo by Philippe Alran

About Jolfa

On the border with Azerbaidjan. The border city has little to see, except the Armenian church of St Stephanos built in AD 62 !! If you can, get toTabriz direclty after visiting the church.
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How I got here ?

Price: 7 €

Traveling time: 4 hours

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Church of St Stephanos 10 /10
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Church of St Stephanos photo by Philippe Alran

User's opinion
25min from Jolfa by car for around 4€ The road to get there is quite nice, in a red-rock canyon. Try to imagine how people lived there 2000 years before. The church is all the more impressive than it was built only one generation after Christ.

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