Category: Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

September 14, 2017

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape covers three areas of a plateau of rocky boulders rising out of the semi-desert of central Azerbaijan, with an outstanding collection of more than 6,000 rock engravings bearing testimony to 40,000 years of rock art. The site also features the remains of inhabited caves, settlements and burials, all reflecting an … More Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah’s Palace and Maiden Tower

November 14, 2016

Built on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period, the Walled City of Baku reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural continuity. The Inner City (Icheri Sheher) has preserved much of its 12th-century defensive walls. The 12th-century Maiden Tower (Giz Galasy) is built over earlier structures dating from … More Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah’s Palace and Maiden Tower