BukharaLegend Two and a half thousand years of city on the Silk Road, and the place where a single building survived by being buried. When Genghis Khan besieged Bukhara for fifteen days in 1220 and then levelled most of it, the tenth-century... Open it on the map · Read the story
KhivaLegend Itchan Kala, the walled inner town of Khiva, was the first site in Uzbekistan and in the whole of Central Asia to make the World Heritage list, in 1991. The brick walls around it stand on foundations thought to have been laid in... Open it on the map · Read the story
The RegistanLegend Three madrasas facing each other across a square in Samarkand, and the name means place of sand. The Ulugh Beg madrasa of 1417 to 1420 is the one that matters most: Ulugh Beg was a Timurid prince who was also a serious... Open it on the map · Read the story
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