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 ...

Between the Old City’s scents and flavours ... It’s a spectacular feat, and the views from the towers’ Hotel Fairmont Baku let you see just how much has changed here. Other modern wonders ...

These days it is a vision of modernity with it’s towering skyscrapers and bright lights, but rock carvings discovered nearby and a small bronze figure of a fish uncovered in Baku’s Old City ...

Baku’s Old Walled City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and ... the second, a 36-floor hotel; and the third offers more than 350,000 square feet of premium office space. A retail and ...

Nestled away on the coast of the Caspian sea lies the hidden-gem of a city, Baku, the capital city of the vibrant Azerbaijan. The transcontinental country at the boundary of West Asia and Eastern ...

But, then again, Baku is a tiny treasure, a former hub of the Silk Road on the shores of the Caspian Sea. In the Old City, caravanserais still stand (now hotels and restaurants) – huge ...