Fairmont Flame Towers

Baku


Occupying one of the iconic Flame Towers, this is the spectacular hotel whose 'thousand diamond necklace' atrium wowed Joanna Lumley in her 2019 TV tour of the Caucasus. No, you don't have to take the €5000-a-night presidential suite that featured in that episode.


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1. Flame Towers

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Completed in 2012, this trio of sinuous blue-glass skyscrapers forms contemporary Baku's architectural signature. The three towers range from 28 to 33…

2. Şəhidlər Xiyabanı

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The most notable feature of the 'Highland Park' that stretches south from the Flame Towers is this sombre row of grave memorials – Bakuvian victims of the…

3. Fəxri Xiyaban

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Since 1948 this attractively tree-shaded graveyard has been set aside as the last resting place for Azerbaijan's foremost public figures. Many of the…

4. State Art Museum

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Housed in two century-old oil-boom mansions, Baku’s foremost collection of classical art ranges from 17th-century French landscapes to Meiji-era Japanese…

5. Funicular

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The snazzy little funicular whisks you up from near the restaurant Chinar to the Flame Towers area in just three minutes. Time between departures can vary…

6. Bahram Gur Statue

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This powerful 1958 fountain-statue depicts a mythical Azerbaijani hero using a giant scimitar to slay a snake-like water-spewing 'dragon'. In a pool…

7. Carpet Museum

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From historic flatweaves to modernist picture-rugs, this tailor-made museum displays and explains a superb collection of Azerbaijani carpets. It's housed…

8. Vahid Gardens

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An arched gateway in the Old City wall leads from İçerişəhər metro station to a pretty handkerchief of garden. It's dominated by the superbly imaginative…