Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
icherisheher.tut.az
Place
Shirvanshahs' Palace
A 15th-century palace complex: divankhana, mosque, bathhouse and the rulers' tomb.
Go to the siteshirvanshahlar.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
When the Shirvanshah state moved its capital from Shamakhi to Baku, this complex went up. It is not a single building but a set of courtyards, portals and tombs stepped down the slope.
The complex has been a museum reserve since 1964 and was inscribed on the UNESCO list with Icherisheher in 2000.
On the site
- 01DivankhanaThe rotunda and its unsettled purpose
- 02TombsThe Shirvanshahs and Seyid Yahya Bakuvi
- 03InscriptionsTexts and dates carved in stone
- 04RestorationWhat was done in the 20th–21st centuries
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Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.
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Baku Boulevard
The seafront where Baku has been unwinding since 1909 — now a park tens of kilometres long.
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