Goy-Gol Tour

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Goyqol (Khanlar)

Goyqol (Khanlar) was founded in the 19th century on the site of the ancient village of Khanyglar by German settlers, who with their characteristic accuracy accurately planned the city and in 1819 called it Eleniendorf. Smooth streets, wooden houses with carved facades, a church (Lutheran Church) still remind of their presence. Khanlar (11.4 thousand people) is known as a large center for the production of high-quality cognacs and sparkling wines, although there are also a local industrial complex, brick, lime, cheese and butter making plants. Khanlar is a clean and cozy city with beautiful one- and two-story brick buildings, asphalt streets. It has its own history museum, music school, cinema, many cafes and restaurants. It is a quiet, green city, from where tourists go hiking on various tourist routes. The archaeological finds of Gillikdag, dating back to the Bronze and Iron Age, tell of the ancient history of the city. Historical and architectural monuments preserved in Khanlar itself: LUTHERAN CHURCH in 1854, two bridges on the Ganja-Chai River - IKI GESLA KERPYU (16th century) and UCH HUSLA KERPYU (1896). Monuments in the vicinity of Khanlar: a fortress of 12 th c. in the village of ZURNABAD, MAUSOLEUM of 16th c. in the village of Sary Gaya, the bridge AG KERPYU  of the 12th c. in the village TOPALGASANLY, as well as a number of monuments in the village CHAYKYAND.

Gillikdag

The Lutheran Church (Goygol) is a church, built in the German colony Elenendorf in 1857. Currently it is used as a museum of local lore. Along with the nature reserve Goygol is one of the most significant tourist sites in the region. The church was closed in 1941 after the deportation of Germans from the region. At various times there was a military hospital and a sports school. Since 2005, there is the Museum of History and Ethnography of the region. In 2008, with the help of the German Society for Technical Cooperation, the building was restored (the cost of the work was about 250,000 euros).

Lake Goygol is located south of Ganja, on the northern slopes of Murovdag, at an altitude of 1566 meters and is considered the pearl of Azerbaijan’s lakes. The State Reserve "GOY-GOL" is the first reserve of Azerbaijan, established in 1925 to protect and study the ecosystems of the middle mountain forest and partial subalpine belts of the Lesser Caucasus, as well as the mountain lakes Goygol and Maralgol, Zaligol and etc. The reserve area is occupied by forests and mountain meadows. The reserve consists of two territories - the main and branch, which is called "GROVE OF ELDAR PINE".This is the first reserve in the Caucasus. The distance between them is 80-85 km.

Wine Empire (Khanlar Wine-Vodka Factory)

Winemaking is based on traditions, each type of wine or brandy requires a personal story, legend, myth. The history of creating excellent bouquets of famous wines - this is the beginning of all wine tours in Italy, Spain, as well as the most popular Champagne wine tours in France. Young players in the wine market - Chile, Argentina, Australia - have been creating interesting bouquets in recent years, but tasteless, without history, legends and myths, gourmets' eyes are not lit. As a result, prices for wines from Chile are much lower. And here, in a small town in the center of the Lesser Caucasus, brandy production was created, which this year is 155 years old. There were victories and what else! The  gold  of Paris and Berlin made the Forer Brothers Brandy Factory famous. The winning factory opened stores in all major cities of the empire. Tiny Elenendorf created his own wine empire. In order to unscramble their champagne again, local winemakers need to conquer Périge again. How this is done is well known: you need an original bouquet. He has to reinvent. Making champagne at a local factory goes naturally for three years. After you learn that champagne is produced here in the same way as during the time of Cardinal Richelieu, it is drunk in some other way. In each sip you begin to look for the bouquet that fascinated Madame Pompadur. She, by the way, was a great connoisseur in this business, the sources say that she wanted a bottle of champagne a day - at least. And at the balls the bill went on the bottle, not on the glasses ...

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