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City in Azerbaijan
Photo: Soviet Union, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Naftalan is in Ganja Region.
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Museum of crutches
Only crutches museum in the world. Here you can see hundreds of crutches of various designs and sizes. They are left here and signed by those who on arrival at the resort could not walk without crutches.
Museum of History and Regional Studies
The following topics are among those presented in the exhibition of Naftalan Museum of History and Regional Studies: flora and fauna of the region, minerals, geology of the land, the origin and the history of the city, ethnography, numismatics and the development of the city as a health resort.
Heydar Aliyev Museum
Established in 2006, the museum contains more than 200 photographs and exhibits representing the life and works of the "national leader" Heydar Aliyev. Among those is a decree, issued by the "great leader" in 1982, on the developing Naftalan as the resort city.
Heydar Aliyev Park
Heydar Aliyev Center
All main top events host here. Conference hall with 120 seats, electronic library, courses in foreign languages, a computer room, an art gallery, and a small conference room.
High level resort
By air
Naftalan Hava Limani serves private flights to the town.
By bus
Regular bus services connect the town with Ganja (3 marshrutkas per day, 1-2 manat) and potentially Baku.
By taxi
From Goran the going taxi rate is 10 manat. To/from Ganja a taxi can be had for 25 manat.
By car
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Ganja · International · GNJ
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