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Baku City Centre Guided Tour: Dive into Soviet & Modern Pop-Culture

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Baku

Explore the vibrant history of Baku City Centre on a guided tour. Discover the intriguing stories and cultural landmarks that shaped the city over the past century.

Duration: 3 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Fountain Square - Fountains Square is downtown, entertainment and leisure centre in Baku. However, this neighborhood emerged as main trading street of boom town during the first oil boom era, late XIX and early XX century. This is where we meet and end the tour.
Nizami str. /Tarqovi - Nizami street is the central shopping and entertaining core of modern day Baku. 800 m of 3.5 km long street is traffic free and it is one of the most busiest part of the city with full of people who take their time after work to stress out and relax in restaurant, shops and concert halls and theatres.
Mardanov Qardashlari - Mardanov Brothers street is one of the entertainment streets of Baku with full of local pubs. Here we cover drinking and going-out culture in Baku.
Nizami Cinema - 28 May street is a commemorative street to declaration of Azerbaijan’s first independence in 1918. The statue of Qara Qarayev, one of the greatest composer of classic music, locates in here. Here we discuss how musics, literature contributed to nation-building process for Azerbaijanis.
Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater - Over half an hour we will walk through cultural sections of Nizami street, where Song Theatre, National Library, Opera and Ballet Theatre and Lev Landau, Nobel Prize Winner, to talk rich artistic cultural heritage of Baku.
Khagani Street - The street and the park historically known as Molokanskaya as it named after spiritual Christians exiled to Azerbaijan from Russia. It’s been one of the central streets of downtown Baku. Here locates (a) Khagani (formerly Molokan) Park and (b) Russian Drama Theatre. We will discuss Russians and Russian language and Azerbaijani Society.
National Museum of History of Azerbaijan - The History Museum was the private residence of Haji Zelnalabdin Taghiyev, aka the father of the nation. Due to its ornate and decorative interior beauty and spatial structure, many modern historic events took place in the museum. Here we tell Taghiyev’s story of rags to riches.
Fountain Square - We finish tour in here.

What's Included

Tea and coffee included

What's Not Included

Lunch
Private transportation

Additional Information

Over three hours we will walk into social and cultural formation of Baku City Centre, Fountains Square (then Parapet), Nizami (then Torgovaya), 28 May and Khagani (Xəqani; then Molokanskaya) streets, based on exquisite life stories, urban legends and myths relates to love and hatred, rise and fall, happiness and tragedy, turmoil and tranquility, contrast and harmony from the confluent life of oil barons and everyday people throughout last 100 years of the city.

Location

Karnaval-3

Istiglaliyyat

We meet out front of KFC/Pizza Hut at Fountains Square. The guide carries a red umbrella with a badge.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Kaceyjonah

Sep 13, 2023

Traveler from UAE - Our first day in Baku is memorable we meet Gani our tour guide whom he walk with us and share a very detailed information about the history, culture, architecture and etc. of Baku. Gani is extremely knowledgeable, patience and kind to answers all the questions. He even recommend about places to visit, restaurants to go to, food to try. He is definitely the best :) On 2nd day, by far this is the best trip as we indulge the local food in Khinalug village and we get to experience the beautiful mountains and warm weather. Kudos to Ulkar, our tour guide she is knowledgeable and lovely. We get to meet her family and spend dinner with them, even share our stories about Baku,my country Philippines and where I currently live now. Highly recommended! Definitely we will share this story to my friends and colleagues. Godbless! - Jona Chavez