By plane

Uzbekistan Airways operates flights from

Moscow Domodedovo International Airport on Tu, Th, Sa and Su,
St. Petersburg on Mo and Fr,
Kazan on Fri
Tashkent daily except Friday

By train

There are daily trains from Tashkent.

By road

Samarkand is about 4 hours by road from Tashkent

Registan Ensemble

Registan became the city square when the life in Afrosiab stopped. Since that time Registan was reconstructed several times. Today it is surrounded by the three medreses Ulugbek, Shirdor and Tilla Kari.

Shirdor Medrese

Medrese Shirdor repeats the facade and composition of Ulugbek medrese opposite. In Shirdor medrese the first floor is preserved, whereseas it is destroyed in Ulugbek medrese. The decorations of entrance portal are illustrating the tiger (“shir” that’s why it is called Shirdor. Ornaments and decorations are very rich, but its quality is worse than of Ulugbek medrese. Shirdor medrese was erected by order of Uzbek feudal lord Yalangtush in 1619-1632. Inscriptions of medrese show the names of the masters Abdaldjabbar and Muhammad-Abbas.

Ulugbek Medrese

The oldest medrese on Registan is a large rectangular building with monumental portal and a yard with four-verandahs, surrounded by cells for students and with four classrooms in the corners. In the western part is a winter mosque. The corners of the building are decorated with high minarets. The decorations consists of glazed and unglazed bricks, mosaics, majolica,carving marble. The most beautiful decorations are zhose of the main portal, where geometric, vegetative and epigraphic decorations were used. Inscriptions mention Ulugbek and several dates relating to the stages of construction. In 823 (1420) when the construction of the medrasah was finished.

Samarkand Pistachio

Samarkand Pistachio, smaller in Size but very popular.

Samarkand Shafran Or Zafran

Samarkand Shafran Or Zafran is famous but inferior in quality as compared with Iranian.

Samarkand Zeera

Samarkand Zeera is famous all over the world for its aroma.

Restaurant "KARIMBEK"

Гагарин кўчаси, Samarqand, Uzbekistan

Platan

Pushkin Str., Samarqand, Uzbekistan