Istaravshan

Understand

thumb|Fortress In 2000, the Tajik government changed the name of the city from earlier Uroteppa (Tajik: Ӯротеппа; Ura-Tyube, Russian: Ура-Тюбе).

Istaravshan is a city-museum, an ancient center of trade and crafts, and one of the oldest cities in Central Asia, dating from the 6th century BCE.

In 2020, it was home to 273,000 people.

Get in

Istaravshan does not have an airport, and the main routes to the city are road connections.

The city is on the main road connecting Tajikistan's two largest cities, Khujand and Dushanbe.

It's 48 km from the Khavast station, 78 km southwest of Khujand, and 268 km from Dushanbe.

See

Old city: The “old part” complex with monuments and quarters is a historical cultural monument of the 12th-19th centuries and occupies a vast area. The territory is divided into commercial, residential and industrial quarters. The complex is surrounded by 2 rows of high massive walls with a total length of 6.4 km. At the end of the 19th century, the city had 7 gates. The citadel was the place of settlement of the ancient settlement of Kalai Mug. The city had 60 mosques, 8 madrasas, 7 baths, many shops, workshops and caravanserais. thumb|Mug-Teppa Mug-Teppa settlement: A unique monument of the Achaemenid period with a peculiar architectural and material culture. It is an archaeological monument of the 12th-4th centuries BCE. Its area is 18 hectares, on the banks of the Nijon River. The object is fortified with a defensive wall with a horseshoe-shaped citadel. The early layers of the settlement date back to the 7th-4th centuries BCE with dwellings of the semi-dugout type. The walls are reinforced with rectangular bricks. Alley of National Heroes: This place was a dilapidated school building named after Gorky No. 1, they studied the language of Forsey. Tree Garden Museum: An ethnographic museum in the hollow of an ancient tree, which houses dozens of different exhibits that tell the history of this area and people. Museum of weapons, craft workshops

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Istaravshan is one of the largest centers of crafts, in particular, in wood carving, pottery and the manufacture of national leather. Istaravshan has been one of the three centers of artistic embroidery for several centuries.

Eat

Meals for tourists are organized in restaurants and teahouses, which provide national dishes (pilaf, kurutob, shish kebab, beef and lamb shurpa, mastoba, manti, shakarob, sambus and others).

Connect

Tourist services (transfer, booking, services of guides and guides, accommodation and meals) are provided to tourists by travel companies of the Republic of Tajikistan, which have their branches throughout the country.