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Administration of the State Historical-Architectural Reserve

“Icheri Sheher” (the Walled city of Baku) is the ancient historical core of today's Baku city. The Walled City of Baku with Shirvanshahs’ Palace and Maiden Tower is a fabulous architectural ensemble with unique urban planning system and outstanding examples of a traditional human settlement and usage of land, which dates back to ancient times and is some sort of "a chronicle in stone" of consequently Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman and Russian periods in its cultural continuity from old times up to day. Icheri Sheher with the Shirvanshahs’ Palace and Maiden Tower was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.

Administration of the State Historical-Architectural Reserve “Icherisheher” under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan was established in accor-dance to the Order of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2005 with the aim to preserve Icheri Sheher territory as an important architectural complex, create legal basis to ensure its socio-economical development, also to increase the state care for protection historical-architectural monuments within the territory and to develop management system of Icheri Sheher. The Administration is given the legal status equal to one of the Ministry or the State Committee pursuant to the Presidential Decree establishing it, is fully staffed and functional, and has 6 entities within its structure that enable it to fulfill its mandate. The Administration combines the function of a local executive power (municipal authority) and central executive power agency.
The unique historical sites and the wide range of tourism options in Icherisheher have turned this ancient city into one of the most attractive destinations for tourist visiting Azerbaijan.

Contact Details:

Administration of the State Historical-Architectural Reserve
"Icherisheher" under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan

20, Asaf Zeynalli str., Icheri Sheher, Baku, AZ 1000
Tel.:             +994 12 492-11-75
Fax:             +994 12 492-60-51
Mob.:           +994 50 33 880 72
E-mail:         ismayilov.a@icherisheher.gov.az ; asif_ismayilov@yahoo.com
Website:      www.icherisheher.gov.az
 



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