Fountains Square is downtown, entertainment and leisure centre in Baku. However, this neighborhood emerged as main trading street of boom town during the first oil boom era, late XIX and early XX century. This is where we meet and end the tour.

Known as Icherisheher, Old Town in Baku houses four UNESCO's World Heritage sites. We will walk and stop to offer explanation without entering the sights (Museums of Shirvanshahs Palace and Maiden Tower) with historic photos. The sites covered are : 1. Gosha Gala gate (Main entry to Old City) 2. Citadel Walls (XII century, UNESCO site) 3. Maiden Tower, XII cent (No entry, however explanation is offered at entry) 4. Muhammad Mosue (XI century, UNESCO site) 5. Stroll through narrow streets in Old City 6. Shirvanshakh’s Palace, XV cent (No entry, however explanation is offered at entry) 7. Museum of Miniature Books

This is where one of the evironment built during Baku's expansion beyond the fortess wall. The story of the garden will be linked to a book titled as Ali and Nino.

Baku Town Hall is one of the monumental architectural landmark from Oil Boom Era. It allows to understand architectural influences from Europe and impact that cosmopolitan and diverse groups of people had on Baku.

This is a story about an Oil Baron and his wife whose love story retold when people get married in their mansion which serves as marriage registry today.

This is a story about first secular school for Muslim Women and the process of modernization in Baku and ultimately Azerbaijan's first independence.

The walking tour ends at Fountains Square.

This is a story of an Oil Baron who commision a Palace in the memory of his son that becomes an important architectural landmark designed in Venetian Gothic Style.