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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A 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
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.
On the site
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Street by street
A map of the quarters and walking routes
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Gates and walls
The double gates, towers, restoration history
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Baths and caravanserais
Everyday life of a merchant town
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On film
Locations from Soviet film classics
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Flame Towers
Three towers whose facades turn into an LED screen at night — the postcard of modern Baku.
flame-towers.tut.az
Yanardag
A hillside on the Absheron that has burned for decades — the plainest explanation of the “Land of Fire”.
yanardag.tut.az