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Baku
About Baku
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan, located on the southern shore of the Apsheron Peninsula. Modern Baku consists of three parts: the Old City, the Soviet-built town and the New City south of the Old City, built on pre-Revolutionary oil wealth.
Local highlights
Explore the city
- Visit the Old City ( or Icheri-Shekher), a Unesco World Cultural site, with the 13th-century fortress of Bad-Kube, narrow streets, mosques, and the 17th-century palace of the khans of Baky.
- Visit the European-style New City with fine arts, history and literature museums, the university and many educational and cultural institutions.
Explore its museums and historical sights, such as
- The Maiden Tower in Old City(12th-century)
- The Palace of the Khans of Baky(17th-century)
- The mosque of Synyk-Kala (11th-century)
- The Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences
- The Old Train Station
- The Nizami Museum in Fountain Square
- The Palace of Government
- The Akhundov Library
- The Hajibekov Conservatoire
- Azerbaijanian Dramatic Theater
- The Hadji Haib baths
- Shirvan Shah's burial vault
Highlights in the vicinity
- The Fire Temple(26 km)-a ancient natural gas seepage that was a place of worship for Zoroastrians
Good to know
- No. of inhabitants: 1.9 Million
- Timezone: UTC +4
- Weather: hot and dry in the summer, cool and wet in the winter; however temperatures on the coast rarely get below 0°C.
- Remember you cannot leave the country with more money than you brought in
Local transport
- Taxi-most are not metered. Try to negotiate (much) lower fares
- Marshruts-shared taxis that take a fixed route and stop at any point along that route when flagged down
- Buses, trams, trolley-buses are cheap. The network is very comprehensive.
- Metro
Inbound transport
- Nearest airport: Heydar Aliyev International Airport-25 km east from downtown Baku
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