Sixty km south of Baku, in an area covering 537 hectares, you will find the fascinating Gobustan National Park, also called the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape. This contains one of the world's largest collections of ancient petroglyphs - there are over 6,000 rock carvings here which is why the area was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007.
Another area called Gobustan is situated along the Baku to Shamakhi highway, 90 km from Baku. The administrative centre of the district is the ancient city of Maraza. The area is rich with monuments dating back to the ancient state of Shirvan which existed between the 8th-16th centuries and was ruled by the Shirvanshahs whose capital was Shamakhi.
