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Gəncə Darvazası

TIME : 2016/2/18 16:23:16

This pair of gigantic brick gateways dates from 2014 but is designed to evoke the idea of ancient Gəncə's long-lost citadel portal from which the iron gates were plundered by an 1139 Georgian attack and removed to Gelati. The site is near the M2 Hwy bypass intersection several kilometres east of Gəncə via a long feeder avenue that also passes 2km of mock fortress walls and a space-ship-shaped mausoleum to the city's great 12th-century poet Nizami Ganjavi.

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