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 numerous old-style house facades on the upper reaches of Heydər Əliyev pr. Follow a path past the maudlin shell of a drum-towered Orthodox church to find a minor fortress entrance.
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