A closing ceremony of the 5th International Art Festival "Maiden Tower" has today been held in Icherisheher, Baku. Vice-President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, founder and head of the International ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Nearby, the enigmatic Maiden Tower — part of this UNESCO World Heritage site — predates the palace, hinting at a pre-Islamic, Zoroastrian past.

If you want to understand Baku, take a walk along the bulvar. One of my earliest memories is toddling along this Caspian Sea promenade with my mother, one hand holding hers, the other clutching a ...