OLD CITY BAKU

Duration: 1 Day (3-4 hours)

Meeting point:  Hotel (central Baku)

Guide: Personal English speaking guide (other languages on request)

Tickets: Entrance fees to Maiden Tower & Shirvanshahs` Palace

Customizable: Yes

Not Included:  Transportation, Any Meals, Fees for taking photos in historical sites, Personal Expenses, Insurance

Optional Sites: Azerbaijan State Carpet Museum; Azerbaijan History Museum; National Art Museum of Azerbaijan

Tour Highlights:

Shirvanshahs` Palace

Palace of the Shirvanshahs is the biggest monument of the Shirvan-Absheron branch of the Azerbaijan architecture, situated in the Inner City of Baku. The complex contains the main building of the palace, Divanhane, the burial- vaults, the shah’s mosque with a minaret, Seyid Yahya Bakuvi’s mausoleum, a portal in the east – Murad’s gate, a reservoir and the remnants of the bath-house.

Maiden Tower

The Maiden Tower also known locally as Giz Galasi, located in the Old City, Baku, in Azerbaijan, was built in the 12th century as part of the walled city. Together with the Shirvanshahs’ Palace, dated to the 15th century, it forms an ensemble of historic monuments inscribed in 2001 under the UNESCO World Heritage List of Historical Monuments as cultural property, Category III.

Juma Mosque

Located in the historic Icheri Sheher (Old City), the mosque has been rebuilt several times. The present Friday Mosque was built in 1899 under the financing of Baku merchant Haji Shikhlali Dadashov. There are traces of a Zoroastrian temple at the site. A minaret, constructed in 1437, adjoins Friday Mosque.

Double Gates, Bazar Square, Caravan Saray and etc.