Qaqaş

Azerbaijan


Original if a bit ageing, this inexpensive little bar-restaurant has a facade of bottle-ends, an interior of quirky timber rooms and a series of roughly fashioned log perches behind as dining platforms. The local creamy-headed Helles draught beer costs only AZN1, and the food comes in generous portions.


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1. Old Town Square

0.28 MILES

Zaqatala's Old Town is centred on a pretty garden-square, above which rise two 30m tall çınar (plane trees) planted in the 1780s. To the south, there are…

2. Dance Mural

0.28 MILES

This colourful mosaic showing a couple dancing the mazurka adds an attractive aspect to the north end of Nәrimanov küç.

3. Historical Museum

0.3 MILES

This small museum is worth a five-minute glimpse to peruse faded photos of the area's attractions amid old pots, jewellery, jeweled horse equipment,…

4. Ruined Church

0.31 MILES

The overgrown ruins of this once grand, barrel-towered church sit between Old Town Square and the fortress.

5. Fortress

0.37 MILES

Zaqatala’s Russian fortress is a sprawling affair whose grey stone walls are sturdy but not really imposing. Built between 1830 and 1860, it originally…

6. Mosque

0.75 MILES

Zaqatala's biggest new mosque has a distinctively Turkish design.

7. Car Village

3.23 MILES

Car is a chocolate-box village half-hidden in blossoms and greenery. Picturesque houses are tucked away behind mossy dry-stone walls in abundant orchards…

8. Balakən Mosque

14.4 MILES

This 200-year-old mosque is easily spotted thanks to its tapering octagonal minaret, freestanding with red-brick patterned facets. The mosque itself is a…