Maiden Tower
Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.
qiz-qalasi.tut.az
Place
Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
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In brief
Icherisheher is the historic core of Baku: fortress walls, narrow lanes, the Shirvanshahs' Palace and the Maiden Tower packed into a few hectares. It is still a residential quarter rather than a museum set — people live behind the gates.
In 2000 Icherisheher, together with the Shirvanshahs' Palace and the Maiden Tower, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List — the first Azerbaijani site to make it.
Photo: Farxad2003 · CC BY-SA 4.0
On the site
- 01Street by streetA map of the quarters and walking routes
- 02Gates and wallsThe double gates, towers, restoration history
- 03Baths and caravanseraisEveryday life of a merchant town
- 04On filmLocations from Soviet film classics
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Shirvanshahs' Palace
A 15th-century palace complex: divankhana, mosque, bathhouse and the rulers' tomb.
shirvanshahlar.tut.az
Baku Boulevard
The seafront where Baku has been unwinding since 1909 — now a park tens of kilometres long.
bulvar.tut.az