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Designed by the illustrious Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, the eye-catching Heydar Aliyev Centre opened in 2012, since when its astonishing curved, wave-like shape and innovative use of space have turned it into an icon of modern Azerbaijan. In 2014 the fascinating structure, which doesn't have a single straight line, won the London Design...
As well as being the home of Azerbaijani classical fine arts, the National Museum of Art also houses masterpieces from Türkiye, Iran, Japan, China, Russia and Western Europe. And the museum’s dual buildings themselves are historic monuments dating back to the 19th century. Named after Rustam Mustafayev, an early 20th-century pioneer of...
Located opposite Guba city on the northern banks of the Gudiyalchay river, Red Settlement (also known as Girmizi Gasaba or Krasnaya Sloboda) is a truly fascinating place to visit. Characterised by its red-tiled roofs, this village is thought to have once been the only entirely Jewish settlement outside of Israel and the United States and the...
The Carpet Museum, situated on the Seaside Boulevard, is one of Baku’s modern architectural icons. Shaped like a rolled-up carpet, the eye-catching building was designed by Austrian architect Franz Janz and opened in 2014. The museum itself dates back to 1967, when it was established to research and exhibit Azerbaijan’s ancient art of...
The building where the National Museum of History of Azerbaijan is located belonged to an oil millionaire and philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev and his family. It was built in 1895-1901 on the project of Jozef Goslawski, the author of many extraordinary buildings in Baku, and is inscribed in the historic memory as the Taghiyev’s Palace. The...