Old City

Old City or Inner City is the historical core of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The Old City is the most ancient a part of Baku, that is surrounded through walls which were effortlessly defended. In 2007, the Old City had a population of about 3000 human beings. In December 2000, the Old City of Baku, including the Palace of the Shirvanshahs and Maiden Tower, became the primary area in Azerbaijan to be classified as a World Heritage Site by way of UNESCO.

It is extensively time-honored that the Old City, together with its Maiden Tower, date as a minimum to the twelfth century, with some researchers contending that construction dates as far lower back because the seventh century. The question has not been completely settled. During this medieval length of Baku, such monuments because the Synyg Gala Minaret, the fortress partitions and towers, the Maiden Tower, the Multani Caravanserai and Hajji Gayyib bathhouse, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, the Bukhara Caravanserai and Gasimbey bathhouse had been built.