The largest city in the country, the ancient capital of the state of Azerbaijan - Baku is an industrial and cultural center. More than half of the urban population of the republic lives in it. The territory occupied by the capital of Azerbaijan reaches 192,000 hectares.
Baku is located on the Absheron Peninsula, washed by the Caspian Sea. Many small islands form the Baku archipelago.
The capital of Azerbaijan is a modern, comfortable city with a well-developed infrastructure, in which the past and the present are very closely intertwined. European and Asian traditions coexist perfectly in it.
Baku is a major cultural center. It was here that the first Muslim theater opened its doors, and here, for the first time in the Muslim East, opera music was performed. It was in Baku that the first newspaper of Azerbaijan appeared and a library with a reading room was opened.
The capital of Azerbaijan has many cultural, architectural and historical monuments. Here you can get acquainted with examples of Western European architecture.
Baku is a large industrial center. The famous oil fields are concentrated here. Stones, oil fields, powerful crane ships. The city has developed mechanical engineering, instrument making, as well as many other modern industries.
Azerbaijan - the capital, which has unique sights - is a whole stone civilization. The most interesting samples of antiquity are concentrated in the old part of the city. Here is the Palace of the Shirvanshahs. Its construction dates back to the 15th century.
Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, is an amazing city. It keeps many secrets and legends. If you drive 30 km from its borders, then on the outskirts of the village of Surakhani you can see the world-famous temple of fire worshipers. Since ancient times, legends about mysterious fires have been transmitted here. In fact, it is gas streams escaping from the ground and, in contact with oxygen, ignite.
Unlike some other states, the sights of the country are protected by the laws of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Baku is visited by many tourists from abroad, and everyone is amazed by the careful and reverent attitude of the townspeople to the monuments of history and culture.
The capital of Azerbaijan has another unique complex - the village of Kapa on the territory of the city, which in 1988 was recognized as the State Ethnographic Museum. There are 243 monuments on its territory. Previously, this place was a citadel, built in the fourteenth century.
Tourists are always offered to see the Maiden Tower. Its construction lasted from the first to the tenth century. The history of its creation is covered with various secrets and legends, and no one can be sureto tell what is true in these stories and what is fantasy.
Another national and natural attraction of Azerbaijan is mud volcanoes. More than half of all mud volcanoes in the world are located on the territory of the country. When their eruption begins, a rumble and explosions are heard from the ground, gas streams break out, which immediately ignite. The height of such a pillar of fire can reach 1000 meters.
