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MuseumUlugh Beg Observatory
M37, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
The observatory was built in the 1420s by Timur's grandson Ulugh Beg, ruler of S...
TempleHazrat Khizr Mosque
Islam Karimov Street, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
The mosque stands on a hill at the southern edge of the Afrasiab settlement site...
AttractionShah-i-Zinda
Shahi-Zinda Street, Samarkand · Afrasiab slope, Uzbekistan
A necropolis on the southern slope of the Afrasiab settlement: some fifteen maus...
MarketSiyob Bazaar
Imam al-Bukhari Street, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
Samarkand's main food market lies right against the northern side of the Bibi-Kh...
AttractionBibi-Khanym Mausoleum
Bibi-Khanym street, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
The early 15th-century mausoleum stands opposite the congregational mosque, acro...
TempleBibi-Khanym Mosque
Bibi-Khanym street, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
Samarkand's congregational mosque was built on Timur's orders from May 1399 and ...
AttractionTilya-Kori Madrasah
Registan Square, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
The northern side of the Registan is closed by the Tilya-Kori Madrasah, built in...
AttractionSher-Dor Madrasah
Registan Square, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
The madrasah took seventeen years to build, from 1619 to 1636, facing Ulugh Beg'...
AttractionUlugh Beg Madrasah
Registan Square, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
The oldest building on the Registan was raised in 1417–1420 under Ulugh Beg, gra...
AttractionRegistan Square
Registan Square, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
The name of the square translates as "sandy place": the trading streets of old S...
AttractionMonument to Amir Timur
Bo'stonsaroy Street, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
A bronze Timur sits leaning with both hands on his sword and looks towards the h...
AttractionRukhabad Mausoleum
Rukhabad street, Samarkand City, Uzbekistan
This squat mausoleum on the way from the Gur-e-Amir to the Registan was raised i...