Baku Private Tour – Baku Original Walking Free Tour

OVERVIEW

The Walled City of Baku (Icharisheher – Old Town) is A UNESCO Cultural World Heritage site. It reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural continuity. The Old Town has preserved much of its 12th-century defensive walls and Maiden Tower (Giz Galasy) and may other cultural structures dating from the 7th to 6th centuries BC, to the 15th-century Shirvanshahs’ Palace is one of the pearls of Azerbaijan’s architecture.

This private walking tour will guide you through the melding of cultures that have influenced the development of the surviving Medieval Old Town over the past nine centuries. It is a tour of an outstanding and rare example of a historic urban ensemble and architecture, which still is a living, vibrant city with residential areas with local communities.

HIGHLIGHTS

Explore UNESCO World Heritage on walking tour
History and Legends about Baku Old Town
Understand socio-cultural dynamics of Old Town
Best scenic spots for memorable photos
Soak up the atmosphere in Medieval Walled town
Led by local guide

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

Guided private sightseeing program
local certified guide
A cup of tea at a local community cafe

IMPORTANT INFO

Duration of the walking tour 2.5-hours
Start times are 10AM, 1PM & 4PM
Tour is offered in English and Azerbaijani;
Operates in all weather conditions
Subject to confirmation within 24 hours.

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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.

proceed to booking