BAKU OLD CITY TOUR
Description:
❖ 09:30 After Breakfast in Hotel
Our tour program starts with Old City or Inner City is the historical core
of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan
The Old City is the most ancient part of
Baku, which is surrounded by walls were well protected, Maiden Tower
and The Palace of the Shirvan shahs which has been mentioned on
UNESCO’S World Cultural Heritage list
❖ 10:00 -10:30 Maiden Tower
❖ 10:30-11:00 The Palace of the Shirvan shahs
❖ 11:00-11:30 Juma Mosque,
❖ 11:30-12:00 Old caravanserais
❖ 12:00-12:30 Bath houses
❖ 12:30-13:00 Museum of Miniature Books
❖ 13:00-14:00 : Lunch in Restaurant
❖ 14:15-15:00 National Carpet Museum
❖ 15:00-15:30 Little Venice
❖ Ferris Wheel ride 15:45-16:00
❖ Philharmonia Garden-sometimes called Gubernator's or Governor's Park, is a park in Baku, Azerbaijan,
next to Baku fortress
The park was established beginning in 1830; ship's captains coming from Iran
were asked to bring a sack of soil to add to it
It was extended in the 1860s and 1870s to 4
6 hectares
(11 acres) and originally called Mixaylovbağı, Mikhaelovsky Garden, after the governor
❖ Group will experience the happening street of Nizami Street known for shopping
The street's history
could be traced back to
Baku's town-planning project of 1864
The street runs through the city's downtown from west to east
It
begins from Abdulla Shaig Street, in mountainous part of the city and ends at railroad bed on Sabit
Orujov Street, near a monument to Shah Ismail Khatai in “Black City”
Total length of the street is 3,538
m
❖ Fountains Square is a public square in downtown Baku, capital of Azerbaijan
The square was
previously called Parapet and is often referenced to by the same name now
The name of the
fountains square derives from the presence of dozens of fountains throughout
the square first constructed during Soviet rule of Azerbaijan
The square is a public gathering place,
especially after business hours and during the weekend
❖ 21:30-22:30 DINNER
❖ Back to Hotel