Built on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period, the Walled City of Baku reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sasanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural ...

In the Old City, caravanserais still stand ... of the Shirvanshahs (Unesco describes it as an “architectural pearl”) and, like most of Baku, it is built of cream-coloured limestone.