Sights in Azerbaijan
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tambourine stone
Seek out the fascinating tambourine stone. This resonant rock was played like a primitive musical instrument accompanying a ritual chain-dance (yallı) that features in some petroglyphs and was performed to ensure a successful hunt.
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Cavadxan küç
From Heydar Әliyev Square you could stroll Cavadxan küç, the city centre's almost-quaint pedestrian lane, or explore some appealing patches of wooded parkland that twinkle at night with (male-dominated) çayxanas.
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Archangel Michael Russian Church
The modest Archangel Michael Russian Church is the centre of Baku’s Orthodox community. It’s not geared towards tourists, but you’re welcome to admire the icons and colourful ceiling murals.
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Təzə Pir Mosque
It was built between 1903 and 1914 but a recent renovation has added gilding to its minaret tips and stone cladding to the surrounding buildings, which house the Centre for Islam in the Caucasus.
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Krasnaya Sloboda
A long flight of steps lined with statues of Adonis-like Soviet youth leads down to the old bridge, which links Quba to the town of Krasnaya Sloboda, home to a unique Jewish community with two active synagogues.
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Nizami Park
Nizami Park is a pleasant tree-shaded retreat overlooking the broad gravel bed of the Qudiyalçay River. A long flight of steps lined with statues of Adonis-like Soviet youth leads down to the old bridge.
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House Museum
The lovers of perversely off-beat attractions can nonetheless admire Raşidbey Әfəndiyev's spectacles, family portraits and the textbooks which he penned at his loveably prosaic house museum.
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mosque
One block east of the junction of Heydar Әliyev küç and Qutqaşınli pr, the centre of town unanimously known as Saat Yanıis, is the colonnaded 19th-century mosque.
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Nikol Duman Memorial Museum
On the way to Stepanakert you can stop by the village of Ghshlagh to the visit the unique Nikol Duman Memorial Museum, which honours the life of the renowned Dashnak leader.
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History Museum
The main attraction of the History Museum is the building itself, a century-old brick mansion built in ‘Scooby-Doo gothic’ style. It looks great when illuminated at night.
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History Museum
There's a little History Museum but the main attraction in Quba is just wandering its orderly grid of quiet leafy streets, admiring the 19th century Russian houses and distinctive mosques
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Bottle House
On a quiet residential street, the quirky, ivy-choked Bottle House is a building-cum-artwork created by İbragim Caffarov using beer, champagne and water bottles.
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Historical Museum
Less impressive from outside but truly stunning within is the Historical Museum, housed in the 1896 former home of one of Baku’s greatest late-19th-century oil barons.
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Həzrət Zohra Mosque
Built in pallid yellow brick the Həzrət Zohra mosque sports twin, rectilinear minarets and a metal-clad dome looking more like a lagged boiler tank.
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State Art Museum
The State Art Museum is housed in two impressive oil-boom mansions. The main building houses a collection of rather staid 19th-century Azeri and Russian art.
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Turkish-style mosque
Şahidlər Xiyabani has a fine new Turkish-style mosque and at the edge of the gardens there's a viewpoint offering some splendid views across the bay and city.
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Blue Mosque
The red-brick Blue Mosque isn’t very blue at all but makes a useful landmark when approaching the Möminə Xatun area by marshrutka.
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Car
Lost in blossoms and greenery, this is a chocolate-box village of picturesque houses tucked behind mossy dry-stone walls in abundant orchards of chestnut and walnut.
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Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature
Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature, whose exterior façade has ogive arched niches set with statues of the nation’s literary greats.
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Historical Museum
The museum displays finds from Old Qəbələ but its most intriguing feature is the fake Stone Age–style swing gate through which one enters.
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Imam Huseyn Mosque
Overshadowed by vast new apartment towers is the fine Imam Huseyn Mosque, featuring some attractive Moorish and Art Nouveau stone-design elements.
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Armenian Church
The sturdy Armenian Church remains disused for lack of Armenians, a reminder of the brutal cultural divide still caused by the war in Karabakh.
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museum
Apart from examining the one-room museum and gazing at the hypnotic views, Xınalıq's most popular tourist activity is hiking to ateşgah.
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Arboretum
The pleasant but overpriced Arboretum has a cactus garden, boating pool, minizoo and fine century-old oil-boom villa.
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House-Museum
Cavid’s sweet little wooden house-museum, where the writer once lived, long before being infamously deported to Siberia.
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