View of Baku's historical landmarks
Baku is beautiful at any time of year, and this has naturally led to the development of several tourism avenues in the city.
Ecological and Ethnographic Tours
Among Baku's most popular tourist routes are trips along mountain trails and alpine routes of the Pirquli and Yanar Dag (Burning Mountain) reserves, a trip to mud volcanoes, some of which are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, as well as exciting tours to the Caspian Sea coast and to the open-air museum "Gobustan Rock Art."
Guests of Baku show great interest in trips to the so-called 'Azerbaijani Pompeii' in the village of Gala and other ancient settlements of Absheron.
Old Baku – Historical Heritage
Excursions that cover colorful national landmarks will bring no less enthusiastic emotions to tourists. As shown on the tourist map of Baku, the most popular among guests of the Azerbaijani capital is a tour of the historical part of Baku – the Old City.
As part of such a tour, travelers have the opportunity to stroll along the distinctive old streets, which once served as filming locations for famous scenes from the movies 'The Diamond Arm' and 'The Amphibian Man', visit the 15th-century Palace of the Shirvanshahs and the Maiden Tower shrouded in countless legends. A trip through Old Baku also provides a chance to visit a 17th-century market square and see with one's own eyes ancient caravanserais, fortress walls, baths, and mosques.
Architectural Splendor
You can appreciate all the beauty of the city's architecture on an excursion route that covers such landmarks as the Manuscript Fund of the Academy of Sciences, the Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Baku City Hall building, the Mukhtarov Palace (also called the Palace of Happiness), the Museum of Arts located in the beautiful palace of Count Debour, as well as the magnificent buildings and structures of the city's main street – Nizami.
Christian Baku
A popular tourist route in Baku is a tour of Christian sites in the city and its surroundings. On this tour, travelers can visit the Orthodox churches of the Holy Myrrhbearers and St. Michael the Archangel, compare the architecture of the Roman Catholic basilica and the Lutheran church, and visit the mausoleums of Gara Paltar and Ustad Shagird.
Also a unique object on the map of this tourist route is the mysterious and not fully studied 3rd-century Christian temple of Tarsa Piry, whose ruins are so authentic and picturesque that every tourist lingers on them for a long time.
Baku's tourist potential is truly limitless. Its treasury holds dozens and hundreds of stunning landmarks that eloquently speak of the country's great past, its rich culture, and its unmatched national flavor.