Statue of Amir Timur

Take the selfie

What can I say ? You've come to Shahrisabz, you've just walked past the Timur's palace, on the way to the madrassa - you cannot miss it. The authorities have razed the whole area and turned it into la...

Imposing statue - sat in sanitised parkland. The journey here from Samarkand is worth it in its self....

If you are based in Samarkand and contemplating a trip down to Shakhrisabaz then I think it is worth making the effort - for the journey it's self as some of the views as one comes across the hills ar...

Grand statue

This grand statue stands in a new park surrounding the ruins of the palace. It faces south with the ruin behind. …. but the front façade of the palace remains faces north, so the photos show the unde...

The king is playing the environment.

Original Text

After the declaration of independence before Uzbekistan, the task of historical justification of the achieved was arose. After all, the ex-republic of the USSR were not born in bloody national-liberation struggle as ...

Where Tamerlan was born

Original Text

Today Shahrisabz – a small provincial city, and in the world it is known, first of all as the homeland of Timur. The Timuru monument in full growth, forms a triptych with a monument to Gur-Emira in Samarkanda (where Timu ...)