Lowara gets Presidential treatment in ‘The Land of Fire’ The Flame Fountain, Baku Park, Baku, Azerbaijan has long been called ‘The Land of Fire’ due to the visually stunning natural gas fires which blaze continuously on the hillside of the Absheron Peninsula.This has proved to be the inspiration behind the Flame Fountain sculpture which resembles a vast flame bursting from the Earth’s surface. The Flame Fountain stands 30 m tall and forms the center piece of a new public park recently built as part of a regeneration project in the area on the Hedar Aliyev Avenue, the main highway leading into the city. The triple helix shaped monument is equipped with over 700 banks of LED lights, 1,600 m of glass rod cladding rails and stands imposingly in the middle of a large fountain pool, transformin

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