{"id":1299,"date":"2020-08-27T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/staging\/?destination=zaqatala-fortress"},"modified":"2024-06-06T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:41:08","slug":"zagatala-castle-walls","status":"publish","type":"destination","link":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/destination\/zagatala-castle-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Zagatala Castle Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.mapbox.com\/styles\/v1\/visitsilkroad\/clvl3cel701dq01phev10aq9m\/static\/pin-s+ff0000(46.6512815,41.6364842)\/46.6512815,41.6364842,12.5,0\/725x300?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoidmlzaXRzaWxrcm9hZCIsImEiOiJjbHV2YWEzbDMwMWRvMmpvYXd1NzRkNDcwIn0.iA4-BEz1MfIrSQRk3uxVkw\">\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting There<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 4 hours and you will find yourself in Zagatala region, where the castle walls are located. An inter-city bus traveling from Baku to Zagatala will get you to the centre of Zagatala city. Alternatively, you can always travel there by car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to Expect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The top attraction in Zagatala are the remains of a vast fortress built here to house a Russian military garrison in the 1830s which later became famous as the place where the mutineers of the Battleship Potemkin \u2013 a key episode in the run-up to the Russian Revolution \u2013 were imprisoned in 1907. 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They housed a military garrison that played an important role in the Caucasian War, when the Russians fought the mountaineers of Sheikh Shamil. Later, the mutineers of the Battleship Potemkin were imprisoned here in 1907. 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