Welcome to Qәbәlә
Formerly called Qutqaşın, this bustling market town was renamed in 1991 to honour the region’s most historic city, though the site of the original ‘Old’ Qəbələ was actually more than 20km further east. Qəbələ town isn’t a great attraction but there are attractive picnic spots and streamside restaurants 4km north. Many more appealing villages lie in the surrounding valleys from which you could hike into the high mountains.
Qəbələ’s centre is the junction of Heydar Әliyev küç and Qutqaşınli pr, a point unanimously known as Saat Yanı. That means ‘beside the clock’, though the clock tower for which it was named has since been replaced by a globe-on-a-stick monument.
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