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Absheron Tour Burning Mountain (Yanardagh)

(Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, meaning “burning mountain”) is a natural gas fire that blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku. Unlike mud volcanoes, the Yanar Dag flame burns fairly steadily, as it involves a steady seep of gas from the subsurface. It is claimed that the Yanar Dag flame was only noted when accidentally lit by a shepherd in the 1950s.

Fire Temple (Ateshgah)

The Baku Ateshgah (from Persian: آتشگاه‎, Atashgāh, Azerbaijani: Atəşgah), often called the “Fire Temple of Baku” is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town, a suburb in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Mardakan Castle

This is the historic castle located in Mardakan and also can be called Quadrangular castle. It is one of the most noticeable castles in Mardakan, a similar one being Round Tower. The castle was built in a quadrangular form and is divided into 5 tiers. It consists of 6 rooms. The inner courtyard of the castle is 28×25 m. The height of the tower is 22 meters. Its thickness of it is 2.10 meters in the lower part and 1.60 meters in the upper portion. There are 76 stairs in the castle.

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

The last destination of the Absheron tour will be the spectacular work of Zaha Hadid which is built in 2012 and covers a 57,500 m² area. Some facts about the building:

• The recorded cost of the center is 250 mln $.
• Architects did 2.5 years of research in order to just find out how to build this amazing building.
• The material that was used to make it outside of the center was invented by the architects because there was no known material in order to make such a curved building.