Baku
A selection of very genuine regional sweets, preserves and variants on halva/paxlava (baclava) are sold in this delightful little shop. It's in a stone…
Must-see shopping in Azerbaijan
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Azerbaijan
In a newly restored 19th-century building, this centre is predominantly a community project to support local potters in their craft. You can watch…
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Baku
For two decades, Çiraq has been Baku's leading English-language bookshop. It has a decent range of classics, bestsellers, travel guides and locally…
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Azerbaijan
The big, bustling bazaar sells everything from pottery, metalwork and carpets to masses of fresh food. Saffron comes in a wide variety of qualities, the…
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Baku
A marvel in this age of closing bookstores, this impressive palace of reading opened in 2018 and holds regular book signings and exhibitions.
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Baku
Cars to get you noticed. The showroom, shared with Mini, is in one of Baku's most elegant examples of 'oil boom' architecture, originally built in 1901…
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Azerbaijan
Although the wide range of knick-knacks is mostly fairly corny tourist tat, this two-storey complex also includes a couple of genuine craft artists'…
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Azerbaijan
Şəki is famed for its super-sweet, syrup-soaked halva, which is actually more like a form of paxlava (baklava). There are dozens of local brands but Yəhyə…
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Baku
Opened in 2010, Park Bulvar was Baku's first international-style shopping mall. It remains one of the most popular, though some residents complain that it…
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Azerbaijan
Locals remain entranced by what is Azerbaijan's fanciest mall outside Baku, but despite the soaring glass-roofed atrium, the place is full of 'could be…
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Baku
While the majority of the wares on sale here are a little tacky, it's worth taking a quick look inside if only to admire the architecture of one of Baku's…
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Baku
For everything from caviar (sometimes with tastings) and photogenically piled fruit to assorted homewares and Lənkəran tea, head to this fairly central,…
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Azerbaijan
Attractively contemporary small store selling local nuts, dried fruit and ground coffees. There's a cafe section too, though oddly the coffee served there…
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Baku
The Tom Ford men's couture store occupies a classic Baku mansion that once hosted Charles de Gaulle during a secret 1944 stopover en route to Moscow.
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Baku
This small commercial art gallery is more affordable than many, with a particularly good selection if you want impressionistic canvasses of Baku.
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Baku
Upmarket shopping mall housing international names like Giorgio Armani, Hugo Boss, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen.
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Azerbaijan
The showroom of Şəki’s kombinat (silk factory) stocks high-quality carpets and some attractively simple silk scarves.
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Baku
Baku showroom for the New York–based jewellery chain where old romantics still hope to bump into Audrey Hepburn.
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Baku
Sells maps and postcards plus some of the booklets that would be free if you'd asked at the tourist-information office.
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Azerbaijan
This small shop is also a landmark for the best shepherd-trail hike in the region; walk west to find the start.
