Sheki
The khans' palace, shebeke windows, caravanserais and piti — a UNESCO-listed town.
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City
Ganja
The country's second city: Nizami's home, Javad Khan's fortress, the town of the bottle house.
Go to the sitegence.tut.azA separate third-level domain with its own design
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How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
Ganja lies west of Baku, about 370 km away. Its history reaches back to the early Middle Ages; Nizami Ganjavi was born and buried here.
Today Ganja is an industrial and university city; Javad Khan Street, the Shah Abbas mosque, the Bottle House and Nizami's mausoleum are its landmarks.
Photo: Ilkin M-zade · CC BY-SA 4.0
On the site
- 01The centreThe square, the mosque, the caravanserai
- 02NizamiThe mausoleum and the poet's places
- 03The Bottle HouseThe city's oddest building
- 04RoutesA one-day walking plan
Related sites
Quba and Krasnaya Sloboda
A town of apple orchards and, across the river, a settlement of Mountain Jews.
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