Terme Naftalan Hôtel Qarabağ

Naftalan is the most extraordinary spa town in the world, a city in Azerbaijan whose unique tradition involves bathing in naphthenic crude oil — a petroleum of unique composition mined specifically for this purpose and unlike any oil deposit found elsewhere on Earth. The Naftalan crude oil baths, used since the medieval period and systematically developed under Soviet times, have long been a renowned and singular bathing tradition, attracting visitors from across the former Soviet world. The Naftalan Museum of Used Bathtubs — a display of thousands of individual bathtubs retired after use — is a uniquely surreal monument to the town's oil bath culture, making Naftalan one of the most genuinely extraordinary thermal destinations anywhere on the planet.