Azerbaijan is a country of surprises.
Famous for its medieval city-fortress, Azerbaijan has a rich history. Being a crossroads of southwest Asia and Southeast Europe, the country boasts of some pretty amazing and often unusual sites.
10. Museum of carpet, Baku
What could be better for the carpet Museum than the building, built in the shape of the carpet? They practically rolled the Azerbaijan state Museum of carpet and folk applied art in the carpet!
In addition to its unique shape, the Museum can boast that, appearing in 1967, became the world’s first specialized Museum devoted to all things related to rugs. Here assembled an impressive collection of Azerbaijani carpets — about 14 thousand.
9. The Monument To Richard Sorge: Baku
The legendary Richard Sorge, who worked in deep behind enemy lines, was one of the greatest scouts of all time. He warned the Soviet command about the impending operation “Barbarossa”.
The monument to the famous Soviet intelligence officer, located in the Park named after him, recalls that this man was in all senses a human shadow.
Oblong monument to the curved shape resembles a radar installation. In the center of the monument you can see the slotted through the eyes of scout, whose learning and focused look permeates.
8. Burning source Yanar Bulağ”, Astara (Astara)
Two elements — fire and water don’t often go hand in hand, but in this case it is. And looks just amazing!
Fire source Yanar Bulağ” (which literally translates to “the Burning fountain”), located near the city of Astara in southern Azerbaijan, is an unusual source, which is an incredible way combines fire and water.
The phenomenon is explained simply. The water comes from a vertical metal pipe inside a small pavilion conventional. But as soon as you bring the water to a lighter or other source of flame, the liquid ignited. It is unique and fun property of water is explained by the extremely high content of methane.
In spite of the water contained in the methane, the locals say it has healing properties. For this water, people come from all over the region, and for tourists became almost a ritual to drink a SIP of water from a burning source, while the fire burns.
7. House of bottles in Ganja (Ganja)
This house is completely built from thousands of glass bottles. It, however, nobody lives, but it is worth seeing!
People show love in different ways. And collecting is one of them. But collecting in combination with the construction is quite rare. In this case, these two passions intersected, and the result is impressive!
House of bottles is a private residence: to see it, no payment required, but also no visiting hours and organized excursions. However, this does not stop many visitors who come to witness the unique combination of engineering and creativity!
6. The Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku
It is a massive building with an area 57519 m2, built under the project developed by the famous architect Zaha Hadid, has been named the best in the world in 2014, receiving the award “Design of the year 2014”.
The complex of the cultural center, except the buildings consisting of underground Parking, a Park area just over 13.5 hectares, two ornamental ponds and artificial lakes.
5. Little Venice in Baku
Perhaps little Venice not as romantic as the original, but it smells nicer here and much cheaper to get.
Stunning complex of Islands and channels appeared in 1960-m to year on the Boulevard of Baku. This place was not given an official name, but residents secretly dubbed it the “Baku Venice”.
On the banks of a Small Venice, you can sit in small cafes and restaurants, stroll in the Park, a ride on the gondolas on the canals (with total length of 1350 metres), passing under the numerous bridges.
4. Mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan
Maybe it doesn’t look like one of the most dangerous places in the world, but when everything starts to bubble and spill every few years, all covered with a spray of scalding mud within a radius of 15 kilometers in any direction.
Azerbaijan ranks first in the world on number of mud volcanoes: on the territory of the Republic is a little less than half of all mud volcanoes, which are on the planet (350 of 800).
3. Musical stone of Gobustan
Resonant stone, “playing” since prehistoric times.
It’s more like a stone drum than any other musical instrument, but it is said, quite a magical sound.
National Park Gobustan can be called otherworldly place. In addition to the numerous mud volcanoes in its territory you can see bizarre rock formations, prehistoric rock paintings and a huge musical stone called Gavaldash (Qavaldaş).
Two-meter stone resonates unusual burnoptions sound if it hit small stones. Moreover, his tone changes depending on the time of year.
The sounds are born out of the void and porosity of the shells of Shelly limestone, composed the Music stone Gavaldash that can be heard at a distance of 2-3 kilometers.
2. The restaurant in the Tu-134B, Quba (Quba)
No, this is not the place of the crash is an incredible restaurant and a visionary in one!
This unique restaurant is made from the hull of the Tu-134В is at the top of a hill, allowing visitors views of the city.
1. The Mountain Of Yanar Dag (Yanar Dağ)
This mountain, whose name translates as “burning mountain” in flames for thousands of years, and still continues to burn. It is not surprising that it is impressive and scares people coming to see it for yourself.
Yanardag called natural eternal flame. Limestone hill, located on the Absheron Peninsula, in flames meters high with a width of approximately 10 meters. This is one of several similar natural places, most of which is in Azerbaijan.
A natural phenomenon due to the burning fuel of natural gas, which is rich a large Deposit under the Peninsula.
At night the burning mountain is a unique sight!
