{"id":186,"date":"2020-08-27T10:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/staging\/?destination=baku-medieval-market-square"},"modified":"2024-06-06T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:37:40","slug":"baku-medieval-market-square","status":"publish","type":"destination","link":"https:\/\/visitsilkroad.org\/destination\/baku-medieval-market-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku Medieval Market Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n

Getting There<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Baku Medieval Market Square is located near the Maiden Tower in the Old City. You can get there by metro, using \u201cIcheri Sheher\u201d metro station, by bus \u21165 or by taxi. If you use bus \u21165, you need to get off the bus at the stop named \u201cPuppet Theatre\u201d. It will take you 5 minutes by walk straight till the Maiden Tower, near which the Market Square is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also buses \u2116 6, 18, 65 and 77 going that direction. Buses \u2116 6, 18 and 65 stop in front of the \u201cFour Seasons\u201d hotel near the Salyan gate to the Icherisheher. If you use bus \u2116 77 you can enter the Old City from the entrance behind the \u201cIcherisheher\u201d metro station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What to Expect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

At the Medieval Market Square, you can observe an open-air museum with monuments of buried pilgrims and other archeological findings, buy a carpet from the carpet store under the ground, find the ruins of the church of St. Bartholomew and visit the \u201cABAD\u201d souvenir shop inside an old bath – hamam.<\/p>\n\n\n