Flame Towers

The Flame Towers are a group of three skyscrapers in , . The main contractor, Dia Holdings, is owned by two brothers who are linked to Azerbaijan's ruling Aliyev family's network of offshore companies.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Azerbaijan National Museum of Art and Palace of the Shirvanshahs.

Museum
Photo: Urek Meniashvili, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the biggest art museum of . It was founded in 1936 in and in 1943 was named after Rustam Mustafayev, a prominent Azerbaijani scenic designer and theater artist. is situated 600 metres northeast of Flame Towers.

Museum
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The is a 15th-century palace built by the Shirvanshahs and described by UNESCO as "one of the pearls of Azerbaijan's architecture". is situated 1 km northeast of Flame Towers.

Mosque
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The Mosque of the Martyrs or Martyrs' Mosque, officially the Alley of Martyrs' Mosque, also known as the Turkish Mosque and Shahid's Mosque, is a Sunni Islam , located near the , in the Upland Park district of , the capital of . is situated 210 metres southeast of Flame Towers.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old City and Bayil.

Neighborhood
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or Inner City is the historical core of , the capital of . The is the most ancient part of Baku, which is surrounded by walls.

Suburb
Photo: Elkhan Jafarov, CC0.
is a settlement in , .

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is the capital of and is the largest city in the . 's Old Town has UNESCO World Heritage status. Many cultures and architectural styles mix in , in particular Turkish-Islamic elements meet strong Western European and Russian-Eastern European influences.

Flame Towers

Latitude
40.35998° or 40° 21′ 36″ north
Longitude
49.82625° or 49° 49′ 35″ east
Open location code
8HGF9R5G+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 340060268
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­commercial
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q80499
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Uzbek—“Flame Towers” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kullat e flakës”
  • Arabic: “أبراج اللهب”
  • Armenian: “Flame Towers”
  • Armenian: “Հրո աշտարակներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “‘Alov dilləri’ kompleksi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Alov dilləri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Alov qüllələri”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bakı ‘Alov Dilləri’ Kompleksi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baku Flame Towers”
  • Azerbaijani: “Flame Towers”
  • Bashkir: “Ялҡынлы манаралар”
  • Belarusian: “Палымяныя вежы”
  • Bulgarian: “Огнени кули”
  • Catalan: “Flame Towers”
  • Catalan: “Torres Flame”
  • Chinese: “火焰塔”
  • Czech: “Plamenné věže”
  • Dutch: “Flame Towers”
  • Estonian: “Leegitornid”
  • French: “Flame Towers”
  • Galician: “Torres Flame”
  • Georgian: “ცეცხლის ცათამბჯენები”
  • German: “Flame Towers”
  • Hebrew: “מגדלי הלהבה”
  • Indonesian: “Menara Api”
  • Italian: “Flame Towers”
  • Japanese: “フレイム・タワー”
  • Japanese: “フレイム・タワーズ”
  • Kazakh: “Алау мұнаралары”
  • Korean: “알로브 타워”
  • Korean: “알로브타워”
  • Korean: “프레임 타워”
  • Korean: “프레임타워”
  • Korean: “플레임 타워”
  • Korean: “플레임타워”
  • Macedonian: “Пламени кули”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Flame Towers”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flame Towers”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flammetårna”
  • Norwegian: “Flame Towers”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Flame Towers”
  • Persian: “برج‌های شعله”
  • Polish: “Ogniste Wieże”
  • Portuguese: “Flame Towers”
  • Russian: “Flame Towers”
  • Russian: “Пламенные башни”
  • Slovenian: “Plamenasti stolpi”
  • Spanish: “Flame Towers”
  • Spanish: “Torres Flame”
  • Thai: “เฟลมทาวเวอส์”
  • Turkish: “Alev Kuleleri”
  • Ukrainian: “Alov qüllələri”
  • Ukrainian: “Flame Towers”
  • Ukrainian: “Od Qalalar”
  • Ukrainian: “Полум’яні Вежі”
  • Uzbek: “Olov Minoralari”

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Highlights include Tower 1 and Statue of Hazi Aslanov (Baku, 1949).

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