Baku: The Touch of Nineteenth-century Cultural Life Baku: The Touch of Nineteenth-century Cultural Life Walking

Explore Baku`s amazing turn-of-the-century architecture, built during the late 19th-century oil boom. The tour covers fascinating and hidden places. Explore Baku and get unforgettable memories.
During this specially organized tour, guests will feel on time travelling.
Tour will start from the Istiqlaliyyat avenue and continue showing architecture from the 19th century. This tour will include two beatiful resindense of 19th century: National Museum of Art (barocco) and National Museum of Historya (italian renaissance).
You will see and visit more than 5 architechtural buildings in Gothic, Renaissance, Barocco, Classicism, Empire-style which been used in spreading widely buildings.
When Baku’s oil industry took off in the late 1800s, the city grew rapidly. A new architectural layer formed around the Old City as Baku's nouveau riche funded the construction of lavish mansions and public buildings. Blending Gothic, Baroque, Neoclassical and Art Nouveau, these fin-de-siècle buildings provided a dramatic contrast to the Old City and led to Baku being dubbed ‘the Paris of the Caucasus.’ Many of them were designed by European architects and a group of Polish architects left an incredible mark on Baku’s appearance in particular.
The oil-boom architecture was largely forgotten during the Soviet era, but local historians and enthusiasts have since thoroughly researched all the best buildings and shaped their secrets into thrilling architectural walking tours. These tours, offered by a number of local tour operators, allow you to not just admire all the amazing architectural details but also uncover the incredible stories behind each building.
! Their buildings and structures incomparably enriched the architectural image of the capital.
Among numerous buildings of this period there are quite a lot of constructions which have paramount architectural-artistic importance. Among them: Baku municipal Duma, Ismailiye, a series of private residences (Z. Taghiyev, M. Mukhtarov, Dadashev, Naghiyev), profitable houses, banks, passages, theatres making on the whole an organic urban ensemble which has an active compositional expressiveness.

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