Fire Mountain Yanardag (9 photos)

Yanardag - a small mountain (rather Hill) on the Apsheron Peninsula, 25 km north of Baku. Literally, the word "Yanardag" means "burning mountain." And the mountain is lit, lit the present - here and there on the rocks and on the ground flare bright flames



Mountain lights and rain, and snow, and the wind is strong because of its depths pulled out the natural fuel gas. He comes here from thin layers of porous sandstone. In ancient times, these places of natural eruption of fire from the ground in Absheron were many.



According to the Azerbaijani cultural studies - oil and gas lies so deep, that in some places they spilled out into a flame. Just before the mid-19th century on the Apsheron were places where from the lit wick earth began to "torch light" ... And there are documentary evidence - such natural "torches of nowhere" describe many travelers, including Marco Polo and Alexander Dumas.



Three Flametongue depicted on the emblem of the city of Baku. The territory of the Apsheron Peninsula in ancient times was one of the centers of Zoroastrianism, and still is a place of pilgrimage for the fire-worshipers from India and Iran - because of the "eternal fires».











See spectacular lights all night



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