Despite Uzbekistan’s unrivalled wealth of astonishing Silk Road heritage cities and sites, this most central of Central Asian nations has remained until recently under the radar. A growing trickle of travellers alights in Tashkent, the modern, Soviet-styled capital, setting off to admire its mosques, madrassas and mausoleums – from Samarkand’s glorious Registan Square to the fortress of Bukhara and Khiva’s “unfinished minaret” – while absorbing its time-honoured arts, its blends of cuisines and its ends-of-the-world allure.
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