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(8 Nov 2024)
AZERBAIJAN BAKU TOURISM

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 12 October 2024
1. Wide of Baku embankment, with a flying Azerbaijan flag and beach in background
2. Wide of cars driving in Baku
3. Wide of embankment, man running
4. Wide of boulevard
5. Pan of street as cars drive along

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 13 October 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani) Vafa Guliyeva, historian, head of department for promotion of science and cultural heritage in Icherisheher Reserve, Doctor of Historical Sciences:
"Many architectural monuments located in Baku were built by Polish and Italian architects. This coincides with the early 20th century when there was significant development in the oil sector, leading to the economic growth of the city. Millionaires and oil magnates emerged during this time, and they commissioned buildings according to their tastes and financial capabilities."

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 12 October 2024

7. Various of Flame Towers illuminated with blue lights ++NIGHT SHOTS++
8. Various aerials of Flame Towers illuminated as flames ++NIGHT SHOTS, MUTE++
9. Aerial of street, cars driving, Flame Towers ahead ++NIGHT SHOT++
10. Wide of embankment, Flame Towers at background
11. Various aerials of Heydar Aliyev Centre

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 13 October 2024
12. Wide setup of Vafa Guliyeva, historian, walking
13. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani) Vafa Guliyeva, historian, head of department for promotion of science and cultural heritage in Icherisheher Reserve, Doctor of Historical Sciences:
"There is the Heydar Aliyev Centre and the Flame Towers. We refer to Baku as the "Land of Fire," which these landmarks represent. I believe that these monuments create a unity and reflect the overall identity of Baku. We cannot imagine Baku without the Old City or the Flame Towers."

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 12 October 2024
14. Various of tourists, people in the streets of Baku

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 13 October 2024
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Seyid Taghiyev, guide of Icherisheher Reserve:
"The main part of our work consists of how we accept the tourists and how we give them, support them the necessary information. We offer the tourists only information, serious historical facts, which we discovered, observe it in sources, historical books, and so on. No myths, no legends, and so on. Only the checked facts."

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 12 October 2024
16. Wide of Old City entrance
17. Various of tourists walking in Old City, near tourist shop
18. Vehicle carrying tourists in Old City

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 13 October 2024
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Seyid Taghiyev, guide of Icherisheher Reserve:
"We can count and count what is a visit card of the Icherisheher. We can name the different objects, historical. But I would say that the whole Icherisheher, with its residential buildings from the 19th century and much more ancient historical buildings, the whole Icherisheher can be introduced as a visit card of Baku."

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Baku, Azerbaijan – 15 October 2024
20. Entrance to Baku Marionette Theatre
21. Close of sign reading (English) "Baku Marionette Theatre"
22. Mid of people moving rails with puppets
23. Various close of puppets
24. Wide of artist sewing stage backdrop
25. Pan of handmade backdrop
26. SOUNDBITE (Azerbaijani) Terlan Qorchu, Puppet Theatre director:

27. Tilt down of stage

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