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Baku: Grand Entrance to 19th century Residences
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Tour starts from the Istiqlaliyyat avenue.
You visit Grand Entrance of Prestigious Houses of the 19th century.
Take a look to more than 5 architechtural buildings in Gothic, Renaissance, Barocco, Classicism, Empire-style which been used in spreading widely buildings.
Among them: Baku municipal Duma, Ismailiye, a series of private residences, profitable houses, banks, passages, making on the whole an organic urban ensemble which has a compositional expressiveness.
Meeting Point
Istiqlaliyyat avenue
- Metrostation: 'Icharishahar'
Walk through the central street of the city - the Istiqlaliyyat avenue;
Take a look to one of the main buildings played a big role in a architechtural style of Baku on 19the century:
-Three-storeyed Executive Baku City Hall
-Pass by historical building and pearl of Baku architecture Ismailliye (1908-1913) or Presidium of the Academy of Science of Azerbaijan
-Pass by the First Secular school for women in Muslim East
Continue to National Museum of Art (baroque)
It is the biggest Art museum in all of the country.
The National museum of Art houses masterpieces from Japan, China, Russia and Western Europe.
Over 17000 artworks an be savoured from painted ceramics, copper and bronze.
Italian art: Guercino, Leandro Bassano, Francesco Solimena, Lorenzo Bartolini
French art: Julies Dupre, Gaspard Dughet, Pascal Dagnan, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
Dutch/Flemish: Franz Hals, Michel Jansz van Mierevelt, Adrian Brouwer, Peter Claesz
And, many others
Visit House of Kulibekov and Mamedov
With the boom of the oil industry in Baku City came an influx of both foreign western cash and ideas.
Eclectic architecture (Kulibekov's house) fusing not only east and west, but several western styles as well became prevalent in the architecture found in the city outside the medevial walls.
Enter to Income houses of Mitrofanov (1898-1902)
It is a mansion in Baku City. It was build by owner Mr. Dmitry Mitrofanov, a rich oil baron who employed Johann Edel as the architect for his residence.
Architectural style: French Renaissance Revival-style.
Sad Life of House of Alibekov's
Rza-bek Alibekov, by whose order the edifice was built, received his medical education in Russian city Kazan. There Alibeyov (Alibekov) met the architect NikolI Prokofiev to whom he later ordered the construction of the house.
Ending Point
Anywhere, city center
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Inclusions & Exclusions
Tour Guide
Bottle of water per person (on request)
Any lunch, dinner or drink costs
Entrance ticket to National Museum of Art: 7 usd per person
Tour Important Information
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Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
