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Follow on Google News | Uzbekistan to celebrate Asrlar Sadosi Festival of Traditional CultureUzbekistan's Third Asrlar Sadosi Festival of TraditionalUzbekistan to celebrate Asrlar Sadosi Festival of Traditional Culture Culture will take place in Khiva.
By: Fund Forum Asrlar sadosi Festival, now in its third year, is held annually in different regions of Uzbekistan, and features specialists, scientists and international guests as participants. Starting its route in 2008 in Shakhrisabz, the homeland of Tamerlane, and going through 2200-year-old Tashkent last year, the Festival “caravan” has now reached Khiva, the pearl of the Amu Darya. Khiva, an eastern pearl hidden within the red sands of Kyzylkum Desert, has a history that spans 2,500 years and is one of the important centres of the Great Silk Road. The architectural monuments in Khiva, a city that has rightfully been named a “museum-city” The third Festival of Traditional Culture will take place in Ichan-Qala, the oldest part of venerable Khiva, surrounded by walls which have fallen and risen again several times throughout history. Ichan-Qala represents an architectural complex as well as a residential area with almost 26 hectares and 2,200 metres of fortifications rising up to 8 metres in height. No city in Uzbekistan offers a shakhristan (inner town) as well-preserved as Ichan-Qala in Khiva. Ichan-Qala complex is on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. As in previous years, the Festival Programme will include popular merrymaking, performances by folk groups, decorative and applied art fairs, a National Dress Festival, scientific presentations and master classes by local historians and art critics. End
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