About this experience
Get ready for a journey through a city of contrasts, where Eastern minarets coexist with Catholic and Orthodox churches and synagogues, and Renaissance, Gothic, and Baroque styles blend with the ornaments of southern plants. I will show you the main attractions of Baku, preserving the unusual, incredible, mysterious.
What to Expect
I admire in Baku the boundless distance
We will ascend to the highest observation platform, where you will enjoy a panoramic view of the historic center and the Baku Bay, alongside which stretches the wide Seaside Boulevard. We will visit the magnificent Highland Park, strolling along its shady alleys you will learn how the appearance and purpose of this place has changed, for whom it was sacred, and for whom it became the last refuge. I will tell you about the connections between Baku and U.S. President Donald Trump, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Alexandre Dumas, the Nobel brothers, Rothschilds, and what "Agent 007" was doing in this city. We will make a stop at the world's first oil well, talk about the oil industry in Baku, and take photos against the backdrop of working oil derricks.
The city of oil and the city of violent winds
Are you interested in how the destitute became millionaires? Do you want to know what the three Flame Towers hide? Are you ready to visit the place where wishes have been fulfilled since ancient times? Our program also includes:
- Mysterious Maiden Tower - the old symbol of the city - and the modern Flame Towers.
- Carpet Museum building, designed by Austrian architect Franz Janz.
- Mugham International Center, passing by which you will learn about the features of Azerbaijani music.
- Parachute tower, from which our grandparents set off for an extreme flight.
- Grand Palace of the Shirvanshahs, where major events are held annually.
- House of Gadjiyev, the largest Baku oil tycoon and patron, where Charles de Gaulle stayed.
- Architectural structures of the oil boom of the late 19th - early 20th centuries.
- Freedom Square - the largest square of the former USSR - and the Government House.
- Bakirovsky Bridge, shrouded in legends.
- The only active Catholic church in Azerbaijan.
- And also the "White City", which grew in place of the "Black".
Ancient metropolis
The final point of our route is the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, the architect of which is the brilliant Zaha Hadid. It is impossible to determine where the "best building in the world" ends and the city begins: stairs, paths, lawns, artificial reservoirs, hills, escalators - everything continues the whimsical wave-like forms.
You will learn interesting facts, legends, stories from the life of the city and its residents. Let's go!
Organizational Details
- The tour takes place in a comfortable 7-seat minivan
- The tour does not involve visiting attractions, but I will definitely show what is inside in photos and videos
- During the Formula 1 event, the route bypasses the track