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Today’s Samarkand: from historic to modernRegistan

Registan Square at night  This historical city which was simple with ordinary streets and highways, establishments and buildings-all antique with old style today is different. Today you can not call Samarkand only historic or antique, it already transformed to modern city. The great Pearl of the East- Samarkand changed. Wide and smooth streets, moderns buildings, same colored houses in a line, lights and large billboards, various new restaurants, hotels and small shops, public transportation and bus stops are informing about modernity and development of the city. Historic and modern is something in a harmony- modern Samarkand is representing itself like this nowadays. Great Samarkand streets  Always shining famous Registan Square, Gur Amir Temur Mausoleum, Great Shahi Zinda, Bibi Xanum Mosque and other historical treasures of this antique city are still fabulous and intriguing, standing at the same place, however it mixed with pleasant modern places, gardens and surroun