The Absheron Peninsula, on which the capital city of Baku is located, has several medieval fortresses functioning as defensive and informative towers at one time. Today we will visit the Romani and Mardakan fortresses, which also belong to such structures.

Tour to the fortress in the village of Ramany. By the XI-XII centuries, Baku had become a major commercial and maritime port on the Caspian Sea. For security reasons, the rulers of the Shirvanshah dynasty begin large-scale construction work to strengthen the fortifications of the city. Three rows of fortress walls were built around the city, and a deep moat was dug. In addition, additional defensive structures in the form of signal towers and small fortresses were built on the mountains surrounding the city. All these towers and castles were included in the unified defensive system of the city, which today is located on the Absheron Peninsula.
The beginning of the construction of towers and castles dates back to the XI-XII centuries. This includes the famous Maiden Tower, Sabail Fortress, Ramana Fortress, Mardakyand fortress. Of these, today we will visit the fortress of Ramana and Myardyakany
Excursion to the Ethnographic Museum Gala
The famous historical and ethnographic open-air museum “Gala” is located 40 kilometers from Baku. The museum was founded in 2008 on the site of archaeological excavations in the village of the same name and is dedicated to the history of the Absheron Peninsula. Here you can see how the Azerbaijanis lived, ate, drank and how they farmed in the period from the XVI to the XIX centuries.
On the territory of the museum with an area of 1.2 hectares. there are ancient dwellings – portable tents made of animal skins and, later replaced by them, stone and clay-thatched houses with domes, an ancient forge, a market, pottery workshops, a bakery, a threshing machine and other interesting buildings of the Middle Ages.