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By Amina Nazarli

As the clock ticks towards Valentine's Day – a day to celebrate love, all love birds look for interesting and romantic nests to spend quality time.

Being a place of passion, art and music, Baku is an excellent city to visit this love month.

The city already took the fifth place in the ranking of the cities popular for romantic trips on Valentine’s Day.

The hotel search service RoomGuru.ru determined most sought-after towns for Russian tourists for this Day. The ranking was compiled in accordance with the booking of hotels from February 13 to 15.

Paris, Rome, Minsk, Tbilisi, Baku, Tallinn, Budapest, Barcelona and Vienna are in the top 10 cities for traveling together on Valentine's Day.

The service said that Minsk will provide the cheapest accommodation (on average, $50 per day), and the most expensive will be in Paris (over $110). In Baku accommodation will cost an average of $60 per day.

According to forecasts TurStat Agency, in 2017 the number of foreign trips of Russian tourists will increase by 10 percent.

Baku is so rich in attractions that one can easily spend three days walking around the city and might find it not enough to enjoy its all beauties. It usually takes two more days to see the landmarks in the surroundings of the capital.

Baku is a wonderful city on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Centuries-long history is reflected in its medieval landmarks, where the special place is given to the Old city called Icherisheher. On the other hand, it is a fast-growing megapolis with glittering skyscrapers and unusual architectural monuments of the 21st century. Oriental past and hi tech future is entwined in the way that it gives an impression of taking a journey through time.

The biggest attraction of Baku is Boulevard that stretches many kilometers along the shores of the Caspian Sea. There are different kinds of attractions in the surroundings of Baku as well. The most ancient one is the Gobustan Museum of Petroglyphs not far from another landmark – mud volcanoes. Another interesting touristy spots are fire monuments, flaming hill of Yanardag, temple of fire worshippers Ateshgah and the historical-ethnographic museum of Gala.

In 2016 the number of tourists visiting the Land of Fire amounted to 2.242 million people and this is 11.7 percent more than in 2015.

More than 300 hotels have been built in Azerbaijan since 2004 and the capital hosts the world’s leading hotel chain.

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Amina Nazarli is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @amina_nazarli

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