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Icherisheher · the boulevard · the oil-boom skyline

Baku

Where old streets meet a modern skyline

Explore the contrast between the stone lanes of Icherisheher, elegant oil-era architecture and the city’s contemporary silhouette.

A walled medieval city, an oil-boom skyline and a seafront promenade, all within a twenty-minute walk of each other.

Inside the walls of Icherisheher the streets narrow into stone passages, courtyards and caravanserai arches. Outside them, the mansions of the first oil boom line the boulevard above the Caspian, and the towers of the modern city stand behind. Four nights give it time to unfold.

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