Russian border (passport control)
Azerbaijani border (passport control)
Arrival in Baku around 14:00
Check in at the hotel
Free time
Walking tour of the Boulevard.

• Boulevard National Seaside Park
  Baku Seaside Boulevard is one of the sights of Baku, a favorite vacation spot for Baku residents and guests of the city. In 2009 it celebrated 100th anniversary. The length of the park, before the reconstruction was 16 kilometers, and after the general reconstruction is 25 km.

  

  Boulevard
• Baku Venice
  The system of walking water channels located in the capital of Azerbaijan, the city of Baku, on the territory of the seaside boulevard. «Little Venice» has existed since 1960, is a landmark of the seaside park and is considered a favorite vacation spot for visitors to the park. The total length of the channels of «Little Venice» is 1350 m, the depth is 1.3 m, and 7 thousand m³ of water is spent on filling the channels. The area of the park is 9740 m².

  

  Baku Venice
• Next, the walk will continue on New Boulevard
• Ferris Wheel

  

  Ferris Wheel
• Mugham Center
  In 2005, the International Mugham Center was opened on Primorsky Boulevard in Baku, built in the shape of a tar, a Persian stringed plucked instrument that vaguely resembles a guitar. Once every two years, the international festival «World of Mugham» is held here. Mugam is the most famous genre of folk music in Azerbaijan. It represents chants to the accompaniment of string and wind instruments, which sound “oriental” to the ear of a European. In the USSR, at least some records with Azerbaijani folk music began to be released only in the 1970s, but mugham itself was in a semi-legal position. With the independence of the country, mugham is experiencing a new surge in popularity, and in 2008 UNESCO included it in the list of the oral and intangible cultural heritage of mankind.

  

  Mugham Center
• Carpet Museum
  The Azerbaijan Carpet Museum was founded in 1967, becoming the world’s first specialized museum for the collection, preservation and study of carpets. Its first exposition was opened in 1972 in the Juma Mosque on the territory of the ancient fortress of the city of Baku — Icheri Sheher. The museum is a treasury of the Azerbaijani national culture, showing the carpet in close relationship with other types of traditional Azerbaijani art. Its collection contains about 14,000 carpets, embroidery, clothing, copper-chased items, jewelry, modern works of glass, wood, and felt. The museum is a scientific center for the study and development of the Azerbaijani carpet. It participated in the organization of a number of major international symposiums on the Azerbaijani carpet. The first symposium was held in Baku under the auspices of UNESCO in 1983. The next three symposia were held in 1988, 2003 and 2007, the last of which was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. In 2008, in accordance with the decree of the President of Azerbaijan, the construction of the modern building of the Carpet Museum began, and in August 2014 its new exposition was opened.

  

  Carpet Museum
• A ride on the Funicular that connects the Boulevard with Nagorny Park, from where an incredible view of the Baku Riviera opens.

  

  Funicular

Return to hotel.

Breakfast (included)
Excursion according to the program «Where is the cradle of mankind?».

Return to Baku
Lunch
Walking tour of the Old Town:

• Maiden Towers (XII century)
  An ancient fortification near the coastal part of the «Old City» of Icheri Sheher. It is one of the most important components of the seaside «facade» of Baku. It rises in the coastal part of the feudal city — the Fortress, or Icheri Sheher. The tower stands on a rock, partially lined with pure hewn stone and protected by a fortress wall with a system of large semicircular ledges rising from the foot almost to the very top.

  

  Maiden Towers
• Juma Mosque (XII century)
  The Shiite Juma Mosque, located in the capital of Azerbaijan, the city of Baku, in its historical part of Icheri Sheher, Asaf Zeynalli Street, 49. During its existence, the mosque was repeatedly and radically updated and rebuilt. The minaret of the 15th century adjoins the mosque.

  

  Juma Mosque
• Caravan-serai
  The oldest Caravan-serai on the territory of Icheri Sheher in Baku dates back to the 12th century and is called «Khan» or «Small». In addition to Khan’s, three more caravanserais have been preserved in the territory of the old city of Baku: Multani, Bukhara and Kasum-bek — but they were all built several centuries later. Today, the Khan’s caravanserai is a quadrangular courtyard surrounded by a balcony, behind which there are small living rooms where merchants and travelers used to stay. In the Middle Ages, the main entrance to the Small Caravanserai was from the sea. And from the side of the shopping street were rows of stalls.

  

  Caravanserai
• The Palace of the Shirvanshahs Museum Complex (XV century)
  The former residence of the Shirvanshahs, located in the capital of Azerbaijan, the city of Baku. It forms a complex, which, in addition to the palace itself, also includes the courtyard of Divan Khane, the tomb of the Shirvanshahs, the palace mosque of 1441 with a minaret, a bathhouse and the mausoleum of the court scholar Seyid Yahya Bakuvi.

  

  Palace Shirvanshahs
• A walk along the streets where such famous films were filmed as: “The Diamond Arm”, “Amphibian Man”, “Tehran-43”, “Don’t be afraid, I’m with you!” etc.
• Museum of Miniature Books with over 6,000 exhibits.
  The Miniature Book Museum is a unique, one-of-a-kind museum in the world, which is located in the old center of Baku — «Icheri Sheher». The museum has more than 7500 miniature books, the collection was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest in the world.

  

  Museum of Miniature Book

Breakfast (included)
New city and museums of Baku:

• Nizami Street
  Nizami Street is a partially pedestrianized central street in the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. It was named after the 12th-century poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi. The street crosses the central part of the city from west to east.
• Fountain Square
  Square in the capital of Azerbaijan, in the city of Baku. The first city square of Baku. Located in the Sabail district of the city. On the south side, the square is bounded by Ahmed Javad street, on the north side — by Nigar Rafibeyli street. Around the square are monuments of architecture of the XIX and XX centuries, among which it is worth noting the building of the Museum. Nizami, the building of the cinema «Araz», the Armenian church, the building of the former «Grand Hotel».

  

  Fountain Square
• Azerbaijan National Philharmonic Society
  The Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Society named after Muslim Magomayev is a cultural institution in the capital of Azerbaijan, in the city of Baku.

  

  National Philharmonic
• A unique architectural building of the Center Heydar Aliyev
  The Heydar Aliyev Center is a cultural center built on Heydar Aliyev Avenue in the capital of Azerbaijan, in the city of Baku. It is a complex building that includes an auditorium (congress center), a museum, exhibition halls, and administrative offices. It bears the name of the 3rd President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev. The Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center is considered one of the symbols of modern Baku. In 2014, it was recognized as the best building in the world — the 2014 Design of the Year award.

  

  Heydar Aliyev Center
• National Museum of the History of Azerbaijan
  The National Museum of the History of Azerbaijan appeared in 1920 as the “Muzekskurs” department of the Commissariat of Education. Subsequently, its name often changed, but it was opened to the public already in 1921. The premises in the mansion of the famous industrialist Tagiyev were intended for exhibiting museum funds, where at that time there were government offices and a historical archive. In 1936, the museum was reorganized and transferred to the Azerbaijani branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Part of the exposition was placed in the palace of the Shirvanshahs. And in 1969, the museum remained the sole owner of Tagiev’s mansion. Today, here, on an exhibition area of ​​​​3 thousand square meters, you can see many artifacts and monuments of Azerbaijani culture, which can give an idea of ​​the history of the country since ancient times.

  

  National Museum of the History of Azerbaijan
• Museum of Modern Art
  The Museum of Modern Art was opened in Baku in 2009, and the first lady of the country Mehriban Aliyeva became the initiator of its creation. One of the main principles of the museum is freedom and the absence of a rigidly set framework in expositions. It is also emphasized by the architecture of the building: the absence of corners, open passages, different angles of the walls. All this brings to mind a constant movement: at least, this is what the author of the architectural project, the creator of the expositions and the curator of the collection, the Azerbaijani artist Altay Sadykh-zade, intended. Even the two floors of the structure themselves seem to be an integral space connected by the “Forgotten Staircase”, which can also be called an art object. The free and open concept of the museum allows its visitors to get acquainted with the most diverse and unusual works. These are innovative works of Azerbaijani artists of the 1960-1970s. and with them the paintings of great contemporary masters such as Picasso, Dali, Chagall.

  

  Museum of Modern Art

Free time

Breakfast (included)
Shopping tour around the Baku Malls (Shopping Centers) and Sadarak and Bina trade fairs.

Return to hotel.
Free time

Breakfast (included)
Check out of hotel.
Departure to Nalchik and/or airport