Outstanding Universal
Value

Why locals love it

Located 60 km from Baku the State Historical-Artistic Reserve “Qobustan” is an open-air museum. It's listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as "outstanding universal value" for the quality and density of its rock art engravings - more than 6,000 drawings on 1,000 rocks, more than 100,000 artefacts and others.

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Why you should visit it

There you’ll see a lot of rock art pieces - petroglyphs reflecting the culture, economy, philosophy, customs and traditions of ancient people. In addition to this there is a Latin inscription dating back the 1st century AD, which testifies to the presence of Roman legions near Baku. The oldest of the images belongs to the Mesolithic era.

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Having this kind of heritages really makes us proud.

Adele

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May 7, 2019 0 likes

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Unique place and a lot of history on a rock

Farxad

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March 11, 2019 0 likes

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Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the centre of Baku was established in 1966 when the region was declared as a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region. Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments, the reserve has more than 6,000 rock carvings, which depict primitive people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years

Khalide

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September 18, 2018 0 likes

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Ancient History!

Orkhan

Local

May 4, 2018 0 likes

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K

Its a really interesting and fasinating place!

Kristina

Traveller

April 29, 2017 1 like

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