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The Old Town also hosts international banks, the Italian Embassy and the headquarters of the “Armwrestling Federation of Azerbaijan Republic [48].” TV dishes jut out of the modest residential buildings [49], next to laundry lines holding washed clothes.
The Old Town has been turned into a major tourist attraction, but it is also a lived-in place. Inside its walls old structures co-exist with recent additions. Neoclassical buildings with slick entrances stand among quaint structures.
“In the 1890s, the Rothschilds decided to transport oil by means of metallic tanks on the train. They could not use the existing railroad tracks because those had been built in the 1870s to carry passengers. So they asked Alfred Nobel to design changes so that trains could carry heavy oil tanks.” The guide showed us a part of those tracks in the Absheron Peninsula, which still connect Baku to Batumi on the Black Sea.
It also had “a special greenhouse with exotic trees and birds.” We saw its garden which had trees from Azerbaijan and Europe.
The first Noble oil prize was established in Baku in 1900. They stopped giving that prize in 1911 and the money then went to the foundation that now gives all other Noble Prizes.” This Villa had “the world’s first air-conditioning system.”
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