Azerbaijan's Baku: Discovering Layers Beyond Initial Impressions

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Azerbaijan's Baku: Discovering Layers Beyond Initial Impressions
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Exploring Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, reveals a city rich in cultural and architectural diversity beyond its initial Soviet-era impression. This discovery is especially poignant during a break from the COP29 climate conference, offering insights into a place that blends Islamic, Ottoman, and unique Azerbaijani influences.

The error is understandable. Sometimes the first glance is like the first taste. One draws quick conclusions, but then texture kicks in and layers of senses correct the hasty mistake.

But a few hours of a break day will never yield credible answers, not in the same place and not when one is only resting the senses after six days monitoring global jousting and dithering over the climate crisis and its solutions. The meet takes place over two weeks and in the middle is a break. Official negotiations cease.Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

In Baku the streets are narrow and winding, curved like the long spout of a tall teapot, but also inclined, many with steep steps. Baku’s walls are turreted and curved and despite the proliferation of small shops, each giving you the best price in the entire world, something compels you to slow down and gaze.And then you see the extensions. Left to right and back, from all angles.It is a standout Islamic architectural element, projecting an oriel window, protruding like a balcony often enclosed with carved wood, many times with latticework on the upper floors of a building. My goodness they are beautiful.

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