Garden named Aliaga Vahid

Nowadays, former Governor garden, one of the first gardens in the city is called so. It is considered as the oldest garden of Baku. It occupied 4,5 h? and was laid out in the place of private gardens and kitchen gardens in the thirties, XIX century. It has been the only in the city for a long time.
The town major ordered the captains and owners of the courts coming from Lankaran and Iran to Baku, to bring a few bags of black earth for laying out of gardens, and a big fine expected those who did not execute the order.
First of all, a mulberry, an olive, an elm, a pine, an acacia were planted. Flowers were laid out. Except local species, trees were brought from the other countries.
By sixty-seventies of the XIX century the territory of Governor garden were noticeably expanded, and ten years later, here decorative trees and bushes were planted, dance pavilions were built, pools, pergolas, terraces were constructed. The garden grew prettier straight in the eyes.
In the seventies working out of new project for reconstruction and gardening was realized by the creative teamwork of architects under the Executive Committee of Baku (the architect V. Musayev, etc.) with the participation of agronomists and gardeners. Having grown noticeably younger, the garden, nevertheless, has kept its unique inherent coloring. As before, visitors of the garden are admiring straight trees, some of which were brought from various countries: an American ash, a Persian lilac, a breadfruit tree, date-palms, and pistachio-trees. Every year bushes of yellow-date and other climbing plants are spreading out more abundantly, covering a large area on the ground and quaintly twining round the trunks of trees. The fluffy verdure of the garden is in excellent harmony with the pools, fountains, pavilions and pergolas.
After conducting of reconstruction, the garden named Aliaga Vahid was replenished with new sculptural compositions. Stone lanterns, bubblers and curbstones, comfortable benches, waterfalls - all of them make together a coincident-current picture and an expressive artistic image of the park landscape. This peculiar landscape “furniture" is skillfully supplemented with the figure of covering of the park territory, and its paths, made of strong cobble-stone.