Baku's walled old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the 12th-century Maiden Tower, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, caravanserais and carpet shops in narrow lanes.
Outside the walls, the Flame Towers glow at night, and the seaside boulevard runs along the Caspian. The Heydar Aliyev Center by Zaha Hadid is spectacular.
A hillside near Baku where natural gas seeping from the ground has been burning continuously for decades, a wall of flame 10 m long, most impressive …
More than 6,000 rock carvings of people, animals and boats dating back up to 40,000 years, in a rocky landscape south of Baku, a UNESCO World Heritag…
One of the highest and most remote villages in the Caucasus, at 2,350 m, whose people speak their own language, with stone houses stacked on a hillsi…
An 18th-century summer palace in the Caucasus foothills, famous for its walls of colourful frescoes and stained-glass windows (shebeke) made without …
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