Itinerary

1. Icherisheher (Old City of Baku)

   • Meet your tour guide and begin the tour in front of the Maiden Tower entrance, a symbol of Baku. According to the history and purpose of this tower, there are several scientific versions and an infinite number of legends that your professional guide will tell you in more detail.

   • Explore the Maiden's Tower, the ruins of the Church of Saint Bartholomew and the largest and oldest extant bath in the Old City, the Haji Baani Hammam. Until 1960, nobody knew about it since it was covered with earth. On the surface, there were numerous shacks and houses whose inhabitants, for hundreds of years, had no idea that an ancient monument was buried under their feet.

   • Have a look at the Caravanserai Multani was created in the 14 century. Caravanserai Multani was built for Indian merchants - fire worshipers who came from the city of Multan in India.

   • Visit the exquisite Multani, the Bukhara Caravanserai, which was built at the end of the 15th century on the trade route that passes through the Shamakhi Gate. Merchants and travellers from Central Asia stayed in it, particularly from Bukhara, where it got its name. The narrow street between these two caravansaries was part of the Great Silk Way.

   • Continue to the Museum of Archaeology. This house belonged to a sailor. That is why the building resembles the deck of a ship. Now there is a carpet shop. The “house with chains” before the Soviet power belonged to the local merchant Haji Mamed Huseyn. Recently, this building was the office of oil companies such as BP and Statoil.

   • Head to the house of the Baku Khans which dates back to the 18th century. From 1747 to 1806, the rulers of the Baku Khanate lived here, the last of which was Huseyngulu Khan.

   • Pay a visit to one of the most important architectural masterpieces of the Old City - the Palace of Shirvanshahs, which is also called the pearl of Baku. The tour will include the entrance to the palace, from which you will have unforgettable impressions of a combination of bright walls and dark stories.

   • Then your guide will take you to the bust of Aliaga Vahid, the famous Azerbaijani poet who was a close friend of the great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin. Sculptures in his hair are elegantly created scenes from his works, reflecting the life of society.

   • See the places where famous Azerbaijani and Soviet films were shot in the old town. Among them are the “Diamond Hand”, “Amphibian Man”, “Aibolit-66”, “Tehran-43”, “Do not be afraid, I'm with you”, “A Day has passed”, etc. Your guide will take you to where Nikulin fell and broke his arm and shouted loudly - "Damn it!"

   • The last sight in this tour will be the Juma Mosque, located in the vicinity of the Maiden's Tower. During its existence, the mosque was repeatedly and radically updated and rebuilt. In 1437, during the reign of Shirvanshah Khalil-Ullah I from the Derbendi dynasty, a minaret was built near the mosque, which has survived.