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Chorsu Bazaar, Tashkent

Under the largest single dome in Central Asia — three hundred square metres of turquoise tile — nine centuries of markets, all of them stacked on top of the last one.

The blue-domed Chorsu Bazaar in Tashkent

Come on Sunday morning. Ask for osh from the upstairs plov stalls (they run out at three). Do not turn down tea. The pomegranates in October are extraordinary. Some of the men behind the spice stalls have been doing this for forty years.

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Tashkent: history, etymology, and interesting facts

Central Asia's largest city (~3 million), a Soviet-modernist capital rebuilt after a 1966 earthquake, and — since 2016 — the reform-era gateway to Uzbekistan.

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