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Tashkent
æ Top Sights
30 Hotel Ideal ................................................D7
1 Chorsu Bazaar .........................................A1
31 Hotel Nur ..................................................D5
32 Hotel Silver ...............................................G2
æ Sights
33 Hotel Uzbekistan ..................................... F4
2 Alisher Navoi Monument ....................... B5
34 Hotel Xadra ..............................................B2
3 Art Gallery of Uzbekistan........................E3
35 Komnata Otdykha ...................................G6
4 Assumption Cathedral ............................F6
36 Raddus JSS..............................................D7
5 Crying Mother Monument ......................E3
37 Rovshan Hotel.......................................... E7
6 Dom Forum...............................................F4
38 Sam Buh Elite Hotel ................................D7
7 Earthquake Memorial..............................E2
39 Tashkent Palace ......................................E4
8 Fine Arts Museum of Uzbekistan ..........F5
40 The Park Turon ........................................D2
9 History Museum of the People of
41 Turkiston Hotel ........................................C4
Uzbekistan.............................................E4
10 House of Photography ............................F4 ú Eating
11 Istiklol Palace........................................... B4
42 Affresco ....................................................C6
12 Juma (Friday) Mosque........................... A2
43 Afsona....................................................... F5
13 Kaldirgochbiy Mausoleum..................... D2
44 Amaretto ..................................................D6
14 Kulkedash Medressa.............................. A2
45 Caravan.....................................................D7
15 Museum of Applied Arts ........................ D5
46 Central Asian Plov Centre...................... G1
16 Oliy Majlis ................................................. B4
47 City Grill .................................................... F4
17 Railway Museum..................................... G6
48 City Grill ....................................................D2
18 Romanov Palace ......................................E3
49 Efendi ........................................................G5
19 Senate ...................................................... D3
50 Franz Bäckerei......................................... E7
20 Shaykh Hovendi Tahur
51 Han Kuk Kwan..........................................D5
52 Il Perfetto.................................................. F5
Mausoleum........................................... D2
21 Sheikhantaur Mausoleum
53 Jumanji .....................................................C6
54 Kafe Kafe .................................................. F4
Complex................................................ C2
22 Statue of Timur ........................................F4
55 Manas Art Cafe ........................................D6
23 Wedding Palace ...................................... B4
56 National Food...........................................B2
57 Sunduk......................................................G4
ÿ Sleeping
58 Teahouse Shafran...................................D8
24 Grand Mir Hotel........................................E6
59 The Rooms ............................................... F5
25 Grand Orzu Hotel.................................... C7
60 Yolki Palki ................................................. F3
26 Grand Tashkent ...................................... D8
27 Gulnara Guesthouse................................A1 û Drinking & Nightlife
28 Hotel Bek.................................................. C6
61 Brauhaus .................................................. F3
29 Hotel City Palace......................................F3
62 Irish Pub.................................................... F5
History¨Museum¨of¨the¨
People¨of¨Uzbekistan¨ MUSeUM
( % 239 48 39; Rashidov 30; admission 6000S,
camera 20,000S, guided tour in english 4000S;
h 9.30am-6pm Tue-Sun; m Mustaqillik Maydoni)
The History Museum of the People of Uz-
bekistan is a must-stop for anyone looking
for a primer on the history of Turkestan
from ancient times to the present. The 2nd
floor has Zoroastrian and Buddhist arte-
facts, including several 1st- to 4th-century
Buddhas and Buddha fragments from the
Fayoz-Tepe area near Termiz. On the 3rd
floor English placards walk you through
the Russian conquests of the khanates
and emirates, and there are some fore-
boding newspaper clippings of revolts in
Andijon and elsewhere being brutally sup-
pressed by the Russians around the turn
of the 20th century. On the 3rd floor you'll
also find the requisite shrine to Karimov,
including placards bearing choice quotes.
Fine¨Arts¨Museum¨of¨Uzbekistan¨ MUSeUM
( % 236 47 73; Amir Timur 16; admission 10,000S,
camera 50,000S; h 11am-5pm Tue-Sat; m Ming
oriq/oybek) The four floors of the Fine Arts
Museum of Uzbekistan walk you through
1500 years of art in Uzbekistan, from 7th-
century Buddhist relics, to the art of pre-
Russian Turkestan, to Soviet realism, to
contemporary works. There are displays of
East Asian and South Asian art and even
a few 19th-century paintings of second-
tier Russian and European artists hang-
ing about. Nineteenth- and 20th-century
Central Asian masters are well represented,
and there's an impressive section on Uzbek
applied art - notably some brilliant old plas-
ter carvings (ghanch) and the silk-on-cotton
embroidered hangings called suzani .
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