Baku Oil Heritage Walking Tour – Baku Original Walking Free Tour

OVERVIEW

Baku Old Town and Oil Heritage Walking Free Tour offers a walk through the most historic sightseeing highlights of Baku, the Fountains Square and four UNESCO sites in Old Town (Icherisheher) meanwhile reflecting on Baku’s past and the transformation brought by oil barons and their quest for personal glory and fame.

You will also get acquainted with the social, cultural, and political aspects of everyday life in Baku on the background of stories based on the real-life of oil barons in the late 19th and early 20th century as well as Soviet and modern times. You will have insight into a small medieval religious town’s transformation into a cosmopolitan city. The tour ends with a free cup of local black tea at Coffee Moffie.

HIGHLIGHT

Explore the UNESCO site on 2.5-hour walking tour
Hear legends about prominent Oil Barons
Understand social and political dynamics of Baku
Soak up the atmosphere in the oldest part of the city
Led by a local guide
Tour ends with a free cup of traditional Azerbaijani tea

The tour takes place EVERY DAY. However, booking is REQUIRED.

MEETING POINT

Out Front of KFC/Pizza Hut at Fountains Square

START TIMES: 11:00 AM & 16:00 PM

TIPPING

This tour is entirely based on tips. How much you tip is completely up to you. You decide at the end of the tour how much you think it is worth, or what the amount is that guide deserves as an appreciation of services provided at the end.

IMPORTANT INFO

At least two people are required to run the tour.
Tour is offered in English and Azerbaijani.
Operates in all weather conditions, except for harsh weather conditions.

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OVERVIEW & HIGHLIGHTS

In this private walking tour, our guide walks you through streets of the historic core of Baku including Niyazi, Istiglaliyyet, and Mutuza Mukhtarov, Nizami and Khagani streets. Meanwhile, you discover the reflection of Baku’s past and hear about the oil barons of the first oil boom era and their quest for personal glory and fame. The tour offers an insider’s guide to the urban exploration of social, cultural, and political aspects of every-day life in Baku with the background of stories based on the real-life of oil barons from the late 19th and early 20th century as well as soviet and modern times.

The tour highlights how oil changed Baku as the new generation of the first era of the oil boom assumed their social responsibility for a change in an oriental conventional Muslim society. You will hear stories about Azerbaijan’s dilemma of East vs. West, oil barons’ hunger for personal glory and fame, the influence of Polish architects, and change and continuity through times under imperial Russia, Soviet and Independent Azerbaijan.

PRICE

Group Size	Group Price
1-5 ppl	130 AZN
6-10 ppl	170 AZN
11-15 ppl	220 AZN
16-21 ppl	270 AZN

TOUR INCLUDES

Fully narrated private walking tour;
A cup of tea at a local community cafe;
Local guide.

IMPORTANT INFO

Duration of the walking tour 2.5-hours
Start times are 11AM, 1PM & 4PM
Tour is offered in English and Azerbaijani;
Operates in all weather conditions
Subject to confirmation within 24 hours.

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