Baku & Absheron
Ateshgah Fire Temple (Surakhani)
A fortress-like temple built around a natural gas flame, once used by Zoroastrian and Hindu fire worshippers.
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Baku & Absheron
Flame Towers (Baku)
Three flame-shaped skyscrapers whose LED facades light up at night, visible from almost anywhere in Baku.
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UNESCO World Heritage Baku & Absheron
Gobustan National Park
Thousands of prehistoric rock carvings, some over 10,000 years old, plus nearby mud volcanoes.
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Baku & Absheron
Heydar Aliyev Center (Baku)
Zaha Hadid’s flowing white cultural centre with no straight lines, Baku’s best-known modern building.
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Sheki & the Foothills
Kish Albanian Church (near Shaki)
One of the oldest churches in the Caucasus, linked to the ancient Caucasian Albanian kingdom.
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UNESCO World Heritage Baku & Absheron
Maiden Tower (Baku)
A mysterious stone tower from the twelfth century or earlier, the national symbol of Azerbaijan, rising above Baku’s Old City.
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Nakhchivan
Momine Khatun Mausoleum (Nakhchivan)
A twelfth-century tomb tower covered in turquoise-glazed geometric brickwork, a masterpiece of medieval Azerbaijani architecture.
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UNESCO World Heritage Sheki & the Foothills
Palace of the Shaki Khans (Shaki)
An eighteenth-century summer palace famous for vivid frescoes and shebeke stained-glass windows made without nails or glue.
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UNESCO World Heritage Baku & Absheron
Palace of the Shirvanshahs (Baku)
A fifteenth-century royal complex of courtyards, a mosque, a mausoleum and a bathhouse inside Baku’s walled Old City.
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Baku & Absheron
Yanar Dag
A hillside that has been burning continuously from natural gas seeping out of the ground, especially striking after dark.