Welcome to uzbekistan

WELCOME TO UZBEKISTAN









Translated from Uzbek, “registan” means a sand place. In the ancient times, this central square was covered by sand. The territory was not initially surrounded by madrassah; those great erections appeared rather later. In that period, authorities of the city were gathering people on the square to announce khan’s orders, held celebrations and public executions, and collected the army leaving to war.


Cities in Central Asia were traditionally split into two, isolated one from another as in Khiva: an internal town - Ichan-Kala (the shakhristan), and an external town - Dishan-Kala (the rabad).
The mysterious City of Khiva has managed to keep an exotic image of the eastern city in the ancient Ichan-Kala, where numerous architectural monuments are located.
Since 1967 Khiva's status as a museum city has ensured it remains the most homogenous collection of architecture in the Islamic world, deep-frozen, immune to time and lost in romantic imagination. The formerly renegade city of thieves and slave traders was tamed by Soviet rule into a showcase city without a soul.



Bukhara is a small but beautiful town in the middle of the country, and many prefer it to Samarkand for its intimate feeling. We stayed in the center, near a beautiful square surrounded by madrassas with a nice pond with fountains in the middle, which, interestingly enough, at some point in the last spread the plague through the city.