UNESCO World Heritage Baku & Absheron
Gobustan National Park
Thousands of prehistoric rock carvings, some over 10,000 years old, plus nearby mud volcanoes.
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Landmarks & places to visit
Where the Caucasus meets the Caspian
An independent guide to Azerbaijan's old walled city, prehistoric rock carvings and silk-road towns.
Old stone, new curves
Azerbaijan sits where Europe and Asia blur, between the high Caucasus and the Caspian Sea. Its capital, Baku, pairs a medieval walled quarter with bold modern architecture on the waterfront.
Beyond the capital, the country offers thousands of years of rock art, mud volcanoes and stone-built towns in the foothills.
Featured landmarks
- UNESCO World Heritage
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Baku & Absheron
Heydar Aliyev Center (Baku)
Zaha Hadid’s flowing white cultural centre with no straight lines, Baku’s best-known modern building.
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UNESCO World Heritage Baku & Absheron
Maiden Tower (Baku)
A mysterious stone tower from the twelfth century or earlier, the national symbol of Azerbaijan, rising above Baku’s Old City.
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UNESCO World Heritage Sheki & the Foothills
Palace of the Shaki Khans (Shaki)
An eighteenth-century summer palace famous for vivid frescoes and shebeke stained-glass windows made without nails or glue.
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UNESCO World Heritage Baku & Absheron
Palace of the Shirvanshahs (Baku)
A fifteenth-century royal complex of courtyards, a mosque, a mausoleum and a bathhouse inside Baku’s walled Old City.
Explore by region
Regions of this country, from the capital to the far corners.
Baku & Absheron 
Sheki & the Foothills 
Nakhchivan