Nizami Park

Azerbaijan


Old chaps in flat caps sip tea and slap dominoes all day long beneath shady chestnut and plane trees on this attractive, tree-shaded square. There's an ornamental 'castle' tower, a museum, a metal spired turbe (tomb-tower) and statues of poets, peasants and sportswomen. The latter give the stairway down to the Qırmızı Qəsəbə pedestrian bridge a nostalgic sense of Soviet optimism.


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