Baku: A city guide
May 23, 2023 20:21:35 #
https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/travel/azerbaijan-take-another-look/baku-city-guide
"Azerbaijan’s capital wears its history well. Even today, the city’s medieval heart beats strongly, wrapped in thick arteries of 12th century stone. Yet around it, Baku has been supercharged with profits ploughed into European-style boulevards and Venetian gothic churches, earning it the nickname the ‘Paris of the Caucasus’."
"Azerbaijan’s capital wears its history well. Even today, the city’s medieval heart beats strongly, wrapped in thick arteries of 12th century stone. Yet around it, Baku has been supercharged with profits ploughed into European-style boulevards and Venetian gothic churches, earning it the nickname the ‘Paris of the Caucasus’."
May 24, 2023 12:39:00 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
bcheary wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/travel/azerbaijan-take-another-look/baku-city-guide
"Azerbaijan’s capital wears its history well. Even today, the city’s medieval heart beats strongly, wrapped in thick arteries of 12th century stone. Yet around it, Baku has been supercharged with profits ploughed into European-style boulevards and Venetian gothic churches, earning it the nickname the ‘Paris of the Caucasus’."
"Azerbaijan’s capital wears its history well. Even today, the city’s medieval heart beats strongly, wrapped in thick arteries of 12th century stone. Yet around it, Baku has been supercharged with profits ploughed into European-style boulevards and Venetian gothic churches, earning it the nickname the ‘Paris of the Caucasus’."
I'll bet by now you can guess: We've been there.
May 24, 2023 12:45:52 #
MosheR wrote:
I'll bet by now you can guess: We've been there.
Post some pics Mel.May 24, 2023 13:02:45 #
MosheR
Loc: New York City
bcheary wrote: Post some pics Mel.
o Post some pics Mel.Okay, Brian. I will this weekend when I get back to my house.
May 24, 2023 17:37:13 #
MosheR wrote:
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Okay, Brian. I will this weekend when I get back to my house.
Okay, Brian. I will this weekend when I get back to my house.
May 24, 2023 22:36:56 #
bcheary wrote:
https://www.bbc.com/storyworks/travel/azerbaijan-take-another-look/baku-city-guide
"Azerbaijan’s capital wears its history well. Even today, the city’s medieval heart beats strongly, wrapped in thick arteries of 12th century stone. Yet around it, Baku has been supercharged with profits ploughed into European-style boulevards and Venetian gothic churches, earning it the nickname the ‘Paris of the Caucasus’."
"Azerbaijan’s capital wears its history well. Even today, the city’s medieval heart beats strongly, wrapped in thick arteries of 12th century stone. Yet around it, Baku has been supercharged with profits ploughed into European-style boulevards and Venetian gothic churches, earning it the nickname the ‘Paris of the Caucasus’."
When I was there in the 1980's, the whole city was covered in black oil residue from all the Russian leaking Oil wells in the Caspian Sea. Hardly any living vegetation.
May 25, 2023 12:18:18 #
Old Coot wrote:
When I was there in the 1980's, the whole city was covered in black oil residue from all the Russian leaking Oil wells in the Caspian Sea. Hardly any living vegetation.
Not good.
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