The city where tile art is legendary: Samarkand | 49asia

Samarkand, the second largest city of Uzbekistan, welcomes its visitors with its blue-domed mosques, madrasas and mausoleums where tile art is embroidered.
Samarkand, located in the heart of Central Asia and located on the route of the Great Silk Road, is home to more than a thousand cultural structures reflecting its deep-rooted history dating back to the 8th century BC.
Besides being the ancestral homeland of Turks, Samarkand is also known as the land where the Turkish-Islamic civilisation was born.
Samarkand, which was included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list, was declared as the World Tourism Capital of 2023 by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation.
In the city, which has ancient traces of Turkish history and was once known as a centre of knowledge, the aesthetic appearance of the blue-domed mosques, madrasas and mausoleums, where tile art is embroidered, is admired by visitors.
The historical city attracts attention with its blue-domed mosques and madrasas built in the Middle Ages, caravanserais decorated with tiles and minarets reaching to the sky.
The symbol of Samarkand is known as the historical Registan Square. In the square where the most beautiful examples of tile art are exhibited, Ulugbey Madrasah, Shirdar Madrasah and Tillakari Madrasah are located.
Bibi Hatun Mosque and Mausoleum, Ahrar Mosque, Hz. Hızır Mosque, Emir Timur Mausoleum are also among the most important buildings in the city.
Tourists visiting the historical city consume delicious meat dishes and buy samovars and silk carpets as gifts.