Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is one the most ancient places worldwide. The age of majority of Uzbek cities exceeds 2500 years.
Uzbekistan is the nature intact by tourists. It includes beautiful landscapes, mountains, steppes and lakes.
Uzbekistan is natural exotics which is not created especially for your visit, but natural, alive environment.
Uzbekistan is the unique original culture.
Uzbekistan is always a hearty welcome. It’s cordial attitude.
Uzbekistan is a combination of different entertainments: mountain ski, architectural monuments, river rafts, adventures. Recreation at tea-house and many other things.
Uzbekistan is just simple and convenient. Its’ European level of service.
Uzbekistan is the true treasure of famous architectural monuments of the Central Asia. The cities where the times itself left proper “autographs” extend across its territory. At that the majority of those cities are in beautiful condition in spite of tempestuous history of this land.
Tashkent, the country’s capital, is located in the foothill of Tian-Shan, in the very center of blossoming oasis in the valley of the river of Chirchik. For many centuries Tashkent was the intersection of different trade ways that formed rather a diverse image of the city. The first information relating to the ancient Tashkent appears in oriental manuscripts of the II century B.C. In the VIII-XI centuries the city had the name of Binkent. The beneficial location predetermined the city’s choice as the Republic’s capital nowadays. The manuscripts witness that beautiful palaces stood among green gardens, mosques and shadowy streets in the ancient time.
The large market “Chorsu” against the background of madrasah of Kukeldash is not just city’s the largest and richest trade center, but the embodiment of all legends about the Ancient Orient. So called “Tashkent-based chime” is the nicest building located in the center of residence of duke Rakhmanov (1869-90), representing a clock tower imitating the Spassky tower of the Moscow Kremlin, the monument of those times when Uzbekistan formed part of the Russian Empire.
Now the capital of Uzbekistan is the largest cultural center not only of the country, but of the entire Central Asia. A conservatory, 9 theatres (including the world known theatre of Opera & Ballet named after Navoi), concert and exhibition halls, stadiums, swimming pools, libraries, parks, blossoming gardens and fountains (the rarest phenomenon in these arid places and made with considerable architectural & engineering perfection) will not leave indifferent anybody. The TV tower of Tashkent is the highest structure of the Central Asia (375 m high).
Sanarkand is one of the world’s most ancient cities. It is known from the middle of I millennium B.C. as Markand, it is mentioned in the chronicles of the epoch of Alexander the Great as the legendary sogdiysky Afrasiab and during the age of Gengis Khan it already acquired the modern name. Under Timurm “Iron Gammy”, and his grandson Ulugbek the city was called as the Great Samarkand. In the XIV-XV centuries the city entered the period of unseen florescence; the citadel and fortress walls are built, wide streets are laid, huge architectural ensembles El Reghistan, Shakhi-Zinda, mausoleum of Gur-Emir and Bibi-Khanim and along the perimeter the city is begirded with a huge ring of 13 colossal parks and gardens.
Samarkand strikes with the dressing of its buildings-monuments, just here the art of lining reached its superior point, there is no any smallest section of the buildings’ surface without decor. Neither before nor after any world’s architecture is aware of such rampant abundance of multicolored ornamental paintings, gilding and glazed coverings. The madrasah of Till-Kari (VXII century) serves as a bright example. It even got the name “Guilded” due to the interior of cupola hall adorned with the painting “kundal”. Even the famous masters of Timur were not aware of similar continuous gilding for enormous surfaces.
The city’s main sightseeing is one of the world’s nicest squares Reghistan (El Reghistan, XV-XVII centuries) surrounded with such a number of magnificent old buildings, minarets and mausoleums that the square itself seems to be a huge exhibition hall of the history. Watching the sunrise there is rather impressing. Deep shadows create the most fantastic combinations of forms and reveal the peculiarities of filigree stone carving adorning the walls and portals of the buildings surrounding the square, the peculiarities that seem the most imperceptible at a first glance.
Buhara is one of the most ancient cities of the Central Asia. The old legend says that the welfare light descend over the Moslem cities from the sky and only over Buhara it uprises. This remarkable city did not overstep the boundaries of its city’s wall built in the XVI century and comprised more than 200 madrasahs and a plenty of bazaars where one can buy absolutely everything ! One is obliged to literally tread the monuments of the ancient civilizations while walking across the old Buhara. The city acquired its modern image under the dynasty of Sheibanides and Ashtarkhanides in the XVI-XVII centuries when the majority of its amazing mosques and madrasahs, caravanserais and baths, fortress walls and gates, as well the large architectural ensembles and shrines was built. Up to now the walls of ancient citadel, more than 140 architectural monuments of Moslem age (minaret of Kalian (XII century), madrasah of Kukeldash and Ulugbek (XI-XVI centuries), Liabi-Khaya (XVI-XVII centuries), mausoleum of Ismail Samani (IX-X centuries) etc.), wonderful blocks and narrow streets of the old city are preserved.
The city’s pearl is a small mausoleum of the Sasanides dynasty that recently marked its millennium. At the distance this rather proportional shrine looks like a carved golden box crowned with a short cupola. In the proximity tourists’ eyes are literally popping out of their heads. The entire mausoleum is built of ordinary burnt brick, but the art with which the laying is made and arabesque carving (brick-based) makes such fantasy of light and shadow that the whole image of the mausoleum is filled with air and perfect grace.
The architectural symbol of Buhara, the Great Minaret Kalian, considered to be one of the highest in Asia, was built in 1127 under the same procedure. The circular gallery near the minaret lantern displays a striking view of the ancient Buhara. The view includes the most famous square of Poi-Kalian (formed with the Great Minaret, mosque Kalian and madrasah of Miri-Arab built in 1536), Chashma-Agrob (1380), fortress of Arkh (XVIII-XX centuries), unique mosque of Maroki-Attari, mausoleum of Buyan-Kuli-Khan with beautiful terracotta finishing of walls, amusing gorge of cupolas of the market of Toki-Zargaron and a great deal of other wonderful architectural monuments.
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