Travel · Azerbaijan

• CityBakuThe capital of Azerbaijan and the largest city on the Caspian. The ancient Old City and the Flame Towers stand side by side here.
• CityShaki and the Palace of the Shaki KhansAn old silk and craft town at the foot of the Greater Caucasus. Its historic centre with the Khan's Palace has been a UNESCO site since 2019.
• CityShushaThe crown of Karabakh and Azerbaijan's cultural capital. Founded in 1752, liberated on 8 November 2020, and Cultural Capital of the Turkic World in 2023.
• CityGanjaAzerbaijan's second-largest city and the home of Nizami Ganjavi. In 1918 it was the first capital of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
• CityGabalaThe ancient capital of Caucasian Albania, today a mountain resort known for the Tufandag cable cars and its forests.
• CityKhinaligOne of the highest mountain villages in the Caucasus, home to an ancient community with its own language. Its cultural landscape and the Köç Yolu route have been a UNESCO site since 2023.
• CityLahijA mountain settlement in Ismayilli with cobbled streets. Its copper craftsmanship has been on UNESCO's intangible heritage list since 2015.

• MonumentOld City of Baku, Maiden Tower and Shirvanshahs' PalaceBaku's walled historic core, on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2000.
• MonumentGobustan Rock ArtThousands of images carved into rock over millennia, 60 km south of Baku. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007.
• MonumentMomine Khatun MausoleumA ten-sided tomb tower built in Nakhchivan in 1186 by the architect Ajami Nakhchivani — a masterpiece of Atabeg architecture.

• NatureYanar DagA hillside on the Absheron Peninsula where natural gas from underground burns without end — the living image of the "Land of Fire".
• NatureLake GoygolA mountain lake at the foot of Mount Kapaz, formed after the earthquake of 1139 and the heart of Goygol National Park.
• NatureHyrcanian ForestsRelict forests in the Lankaran region surviving from millions of years ago, on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2023.

• ShrineAteshgah Fire TempleA fire temple at Surakhani, built over natural gas flames. In the 17th–18th centuries it was a place of worship for merchants and pilgrims from India.
• ShrineJuma Mosque of ShamakhiFounded in 743, one of the oldest mosques in the Caucasus.
• ShrineBibi-Heybat MosqueA shrine on the Caspian shore south of Baku; its 13th-century mosque was destroyed in 1936 and rebuilt in the 1990s–2000s.
• ShrineChurch of KishA Christian church near Shaki from the era of Caucasian Albania, now a museum.

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Did you know?

• Gobustan has a Latin inscription left by a Roman legion on the Caspian shore.

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• Baku lies about 28 metres below sea level.

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• The Maiden Tower is 29 metres tall.

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