The Light That Never Goes Out
Azerbaijan is known as “The Land of Fire”, and aptly so. When Marco Polo visited the then-Persian city of Baku, he wrote about numerous mysterious flames that could be found all over the region: “This is absolutely the most interesting and fascinating thing, which can be seen nowhere else.”
The natural fires of Azerbaijan are considered to have played a crucial part in the ancient Zoroastrian religion, which was founded in
