HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
WINEPRESS N 1 IN THE DALMA GARDENS
19th century
State index: 1.7.11.2
Located
in the northern part of the Dalma Gardens, on a gently sloping surface, not far
from a Bronze–Iron Age burial mound.
It
was built in the 19th century, when during the reign of the last Persian sardar
of Yerevan, Hussein Qoli Khan (1807–1828), the Dalma canal was restored, new
orchards were established, and viticulture and winemaking developed, along with
the construction of numerous pressing houses and cellars.
It
is a vaulted, partially ruined structure with a rectangular plan, elongated in
an east–west direction. A portion of the semicircular vault has been preserved.
Traces of clay plaster remain on the walls, and small niches are present in the
southern wall. The entrance was likely located in the western part of the
northern wall.
The
interior is filled with rubble. Remains of an attached structure are visible on
the eastern side. It is built of roughly hewn stone, while the vault consists
of brick-sized stones made of basalt and red tuff.
It
is known that winepresses were often also used as wine cellars, and this
structure may have served a similar function.
