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The Heydar Aliyev Centre is a 57500 m² building complex with a characteristic white colour curved shape. Located between Baku and the airport, it houses a conference hall, a gallery hall and a museum. Next to it is the Baku Congress Centre building. The Shikhov beach is a sandy beach about 10km south of Baku, next to the Ramada hotel. The seawater here is reasonably clean for swimming. The Azerbaijan state university of culture and arts was founded in 1923 and is Azerbaijan's main state-funded institution of higher education in performing arts.