Flower Festival in Azerbaijan
Flower Festival in Azerbaijan is held on May 10. This event in the first decade of the month May is annual. Help us
First held in 2010 in memory of the late President Heydar Aliyev, this festival is celebrated across the country on 10 May every year. Flowers are planted across Baku, with displays of bouquets and sculptures of Azerbaijan’s flag, landmarks and historic sites made from blooms on show in Heydar Aliyez Park in front of Heydar Aliyev Palace. Visitors can also watch flower arranging demonstrations, dances, outdoor concerts along the capital’s seafront and fireworks.
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Hidirellez on May 6 (Turkey, Azerbaijan, is also celebrated in other Turkic-speaking countries as the day on which the prophets Khidr [al-Khidr] and Ilyas [Ilya] met on earth);
Day of employees of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources in Azerbaijan on May 23 (and the celebration of the Annunciation of the Bab);
TDFR Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia on May 28 (celebrates the declaration of independence of the First Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918);
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