🇮🇹 Benvenuti in Uzbekistan!
Nato dalla collaborazione con il famoso gruppo uzbeko Kuk Choy, l'obbiettivo
principale di questo video musicale è promuovere l'Uzbekistan in Italia e nel
mondo! Un ringraziamento particolare a Franco Poggiali Berlinghieri dell'Artestudio53
di Sesto Fiorentino (FI) per la collaborazione in Italia!
🔸The Ark Fortress is impressive
Bukhara citadel (6th c. - 7th c.). It is the location the city grew from. It is
hard to imagine that just 100 years ago they still beheaded criminals on the
square before the citadel and its dungeons were full of inmates suffering from
poisonous insects.
🔸Until 1920 it had served as Bukhara
rulers’ residence.
The fortress stands on an artificial hill of
up to 20 meters in height. The approximate area of the site is 4.2 hectares.
🔸Today’s Ark is a most interesting
tourist attraction featuring reconstructions with dummies and housing a few
museums.
Shah-i-Zinda Necropolis, a remarkable
complex of medieval Samarkand mausoleums and other cult buildings (over 20 in
number), called ‘the street cemetery’ by the locals, is located near
Bibi-Khanym Mosque on the slope of ancient Samarkand settlement Afrasiab.
The complex, a UNESCO World
Heritage Site, is a major Samarkand tourist attraction and an important Islamic
holy site. They say going on a pilgrimage to it equals a hajj to Mecca.
Archeological studies indicated
that the earliest Shah-i-Zinda mausoleums date back to the 11th - 12th
centuries, with only some of their foundations and tombstones surviving. Most
of the buildings date back to the 14th - 15th centuries. The portal and a few
buildings at the foot of the hill are the youngest, built in the 19th century.
Kebab
(shashlyk, shish kebab), is a favourite both in Asia and in Caucasus. It can be
easily made from any type of meat or fish.
The meat is
cut in cubes which then are skewered and roasted over an open fire on the
chargrill. Shashlyk is garnished with fresh vegetables, pickles, sauces, and
fresh herbs, of course. Shashlyk better be eaten hot.
Gastronomic
Group Tour to Uzbekistan: 11.10 - 18.10.2018
With its
magical buildings, fascinating landscapes and friendly people, Uzbekistan has a
lot to offer. It is a country caught between rich traditions and modernity.
Wild
equestrian games, fairytale palaces and hospitable people proud of their
magnificent culture - all this will be encountered by those traveling through
Uzbekistan on the Silk Road. The central Asian country borders Kazakhstan to
the north and Afghanistan to the south. The journey begins in Samarkand, one of
central Asia’s oldest cities.
For centuries
cities like Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva provided the necessary infrastructure
for the caravans on the Silk Road, allowing merchants to trade their goods and
providing accommodation for them and their animals. Many buildings still
survive to underline the splendor and wealth that trade once generated. In
Samarkand, one of the world’s oldest cities, three outstanding Koran schools,
known as madrasas, on Registan Square have been listed as a UNESCO World
Heritage Site. In the Boysun region in the Hissar Mountains the ancient, and
none-too-gentle riding game known as Kopkari is held at Nowruz, the New Year
festival. More than a hundred horsemen try to pick up the body of a dead goat
from the ground and to escape with this from all the others. In 1380 the Uzbek
folk hero Amir Timur (Tamerlane) had the gigantic Ak Sarav, the White Palace,
built in Shahrisabz, the town of his birth. It had a thousand rooms adorned
with gemstones.
Islam-Khodja Complex is one of the pearls of
Ichan-Kala - Khiva’s historical part, which was the first Uzbekistan’s site
included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1990.
Islam-Khodja Madrasah and Minaret are the
most prominent of Ichan-Kala, its landmark. The complex is famous thanks to the
contrast between its Ichan-Kala’s tallest minaret and smallest madrasah, as the
architect of the complex designed. Thus the minaret, visible at a long
distance, looks even grander. At the beginning of the last century the minaret
helped travelers to orientate themselves and find the way to the city faster.
🕌The architectural complex Po-i-Kalyan is the central
Bukhara tourist attraction located in the main Registan Square. Po-i-Kalyan,
‘the foot of the great’, consists of three structures built in the 12th - 16th
centuries: Kalyan Minaret, Kalyan Mosque and Mir-i Arab Madrasah.
