!!!Kalyan Minaret, Bukhara

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The part of Silk Road and the ancient capital of khanate is Bukhara.
Bukhara is one of the most picturesque and legendary cities of the
world. It had been captured, destroyed many times and restored again.
And behind the walls of its numerous harems no laughing south passion
was burning...

Bukhara is a memorial city, museum under the sky which stopped in the
past. One can get the general idea of the city if he/she goes upstairs
in the Kalyan Minaret situated on the territory of the Pio-Kalyan
complex. This is the most outstanding sightseeing of Bukhara in the
literal and figurative senses of this word. Once upon a time the minaret
served as a lighthouse for the caravans going through a desert. It has
remained to this day particularly thanks to its greatness. They say that
when the forces of Genghis Khan entered in the city destroying
everything on their way, the great commander's cap fell when he had
raised the head to look round the minaret. He said: "Such great that
forced me to take off the cap!" Genghis Khan gave credit for its
superiority and didn't destroy.

And there is one more remained from that time monument of Bukhara -
Magoki-Attari that means Blue Mosque. Genghis Khan even didn't see it
because the inhabitants of the city buried it with sand in time and
unburied it only after the forces had gone.

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[1 Panorama of Kalyan Minaret|Geography/Asia/Uzbekistan/Pictures/Panoramas_of_Kalyan_Minaret]










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