Welcome to Baku

Baku is the capital, largest city and largest port of Azerbailan. Baku sometimes spelled as Baki, Bakou or Badu-Kube (Meaning as city of winds).  Baku is one of Caucasus most important tourist destinations; with hotels in city earning 7 million euros in 2009. Many sizeable world hotel chains have presence in the city. Baku boasts many popular tourist and entertainment spots, such as the downtown Fountains Square, the One and Thousand Nights Beach, Shikhov Beach and Oil Rocks. Baku’s vicinities feature Yanar Dag, an ever-blazing spot of natural gas. On 2 September 2010, with the innauguration of National Flag Square, Baku became home to world’s tallest flagpole, included to the Guinness Book of Records.Baku has several shopping malls, including Park Bulvar and the Amay Shopping Center, Azerbaijan’s largest inner city shopping mall. The retail areas contain shops from chain stores up to high-end boutiques such as Gucci, Emporio Armani, Versace, Burberry, Salvatore Ferragamo, Dolce & Gabbana and Bulgari. Baku has wildly varying architecture, ranging from the Old City core to modern buildings and the spacious layout of Baku port. Many of the city’s most impressive buildings were built during the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic period, when architectural elements of the European styles were combined in eclectic style.Baku thus has an original and unique appearance, earning it a reputation as the ‘Paris of the East’Late modern and postmodern architecture began to appear in the early 2000s. With economic development, old buildings such as Atlant House were razed to make way for new ones.

Modern Baku (Photos and videos)