Uzbekistan, in the heart of Central Asia, is a unique crossroads of its kind. Crossroads of civilizations with the footsteps of great empires: that of Alexander the Great to that of the tsars through those of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. Carrefour lifestyles, between nomadic tribes and some of the oldest settled city in the world. Crossroads of religions, at the crossroads of influences Buddhist, Christian and Muslim, without outfits have ever been actually erased some traditions left by shamanism or Zoroastrianism. Cultural Crossroads finally discovered that throughout the legendary Silk Road linking China to the West before the advent of major shipping routes.
Each of these faces, Uzbekistan has maintained a legacy through the lifestyle of its people and the most prestigious monuments of the Muslim world, even though a new company appeared, made of a mosaic of people , languages, traditions, the result of the clash between communism and Islam.
Nearly 20 years after independence, Uzbekistan full advantage of tourism assets bequeathed by the gerrymandering of borders by Stalin in the 1920s and 1930s three legendary cities of Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, draining each year tens of thousands of tourists eager to walk in the footsteps of Marco Polo and discover historical monuments depicting ten centuries of Muslim architecture. A financial windfall that comes at a country plagued by huge economic difficulties, and trying to get out of the system imposed by the Soviets for decades.
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