Baku Funicular
A short mountain railway from the boulevard up to the Alley of Martyrs — the city's simplest lift since 1960.
funikulyor.tut.az
Nature
Yanardag
A hillside on the Absheron that has burned for decades — the plainest explanation of the “Land of Fire”.
Go to the site
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In brief
Yanardag lies north of Baku near the village of Mehemmedi. Natural gas seeps from the slope and burns: a wall of flame a few metres long, bending in the wind.
A reserve with a museum has grown up around it, gathering Absheron's gas seeps, historical accounts and traces of the fire cult.
On the site
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01
Geology
Where the gas comes from
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02
Fire cult
Zoroastrianism and local beliefs
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03
Visiting
How to get there and when to look
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04
Absheron
Other seeps nearby
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