By Agha Iqrar Haroon
If you’re here to know about Night Life in Baku, then you are at wrong page to find information and would be disappointed but I can show you awesome beauty of Baku at Night. Smile
I love to see Baku at Night because of its multi-coloured cloudy sky, systematic and scientific illumination of buildings and romantic wind.
I must appreciate city authorities of Baku for an exceptional beautiful illumination plan of Baku buildings.
People call Baku a city of winds but I call Baku a city of exceptional multi-coloured skies. I can also call Baku—A city of Gardens and of course; a City of Lightings.
I suggest my readers to join me to a journey of Baku at Night.
I start my journey from visiting Highland Park for an incomparable panoramic view of Baku Bay from the highest point of the city. I sit there for some time and enjoy night wind. This wind calms my body and soul and energises me for further exploration of beauty of Baku. I now move onto National Flag Square which is home to the Azerbaijani flag.
After viewing Flame Towers; Government House, Heydar Aliyev Center, State Philharmonic Hall; Mugam Center and Carpet Museum, I decide to explore Nizami Street.
I consider Nizami Street as main tourism artery of Baku. Built between 1864 and 1918, the street runs through the city’s downtown from west to east. It begins from Abdulla Shaig Street, in the mountainous part of the city and ends at railroad bed on Sabit Orujov Street, near a monument to Shah Ismail Khatai in “Black City”. The total length of the street is around 3 kilometre.
The most crowded and popular region of Nizami Street is Fountains Square which ends at the Rashid Behbudov Street. Russian tourists still call it Torgovaya (The merchant street).
Nizami Street is a very expensive place for dinning therefore I take my dinner usually at 28 May area, which very close to Nizami Street but a cheaper place for tourists.
The 28 May Street starts at Bulbul Avenue, it spans about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) and ends up at the Richard Sorge Street. The street, among other names, was known as Telefonnaya (Telephone Street) during the Russian era.
This history of 2 May Street is very interesting. After the construction of the Baku Train Station in 1883, there was a need to connect the station with the city with a paved street. In 1887, the first telephone exchange in Baku was built here therefore it named as Telefonnaya (Telephone Street). By the end of the nineteenth century, horsecars already ran on the street. In 1898, it gained importance due to the construction of the first Lutheran church in Baku. In 1913, Telefonnaya was renamed to Romanovsky Prospekt (Romanov Avenue) to mark the 300th anniversary of the Romanov rule in the Russian Empire. In 1918, the street was renamed to Lindley Street after Sir William Lindley who had contributed to the infrastructural development of Czar-era Baku. After changing two more names, the Street was renamed as 28 May in 1991 to mark the anniversary of Azerbaijan’s declaration of independence in 1918. Today 28 May Street is one of the largest in the city. The traffic between Bulbul Avenue and Sorge Street is one-way from east to west. Sahil (Sea) is not far away from 8 May Street and I love to end of my night journey usually sitting on one of many benches at park, surrounded Sahil (Sea). This Seaside Park which is also known as Baku Boulevard is a walkway that runs parallel to Baku’s seafront, popular for taking in views of the Caspian. Look at Sky—-Oh My God— multi-coloured over Caspian Sea are taking my breath.
My journey within Baku continues—-–
