Basqal
An ancient village famous for the hand-woven silk headscarf known as kelaghayi. It has an old bathhouse and traditional workshops, and it is often visited on the same day as Lahij.
Basqal is an old village in Ismayilli District that was once a silk-weaving center on the Silk Road. Workshops here still make the traditional silk headscarf known as Kelağayı using wood-block printing and dyeing. The craft has been inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The village has stone-paved old streets, a 16th- to 17th-century bathhouse and a mosque. Visitors can tour the workshops and buy scarves. It lies about 20 km from Ismayilli and not far from the Lahij junction, so it suits a day trip from Gabala combined with Lahij.
Opening hours
All day (workshops approx. 10:00–17:00)
Nearby sights
- Lahij
- Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory
- Yeddi Gumbaz Mausoleum
- Juma Mosque of Shamakhi
- Ivanovka
- Yeddi Gozel Waterfall
- Nohur Lake
- Gabaland