Arrival in Tashkent international airport and meeting with the guide and driver. Transfer to the hotel and accommodation.

Breakfast at the hotel. All day is dedicated to visiting the old city: Tashkent is an ancient city on the Silk Road. Little remains of its past due to an earthquake that destroyed it in 1966 and above all due to the creation, in the Soviet era, of an urban plan developed since 1916. The result is that today’s Tashkent has the typical physiognomy of a city of Eastern Europe, with monumental administrative buildings, immense parks and enormous condominium-dormitories that inevitably hark back to the years of the Stalinist regime. We begin with a visit to the Kast-Imam complex which refers to a group of buildings including the Abu Bakr Kaffal Shashi mausoleum, the mausoleum built in the 16th century on the tomb of Abu Bakr Kaffal Shashi Shrine, the Barak Khan madrassa, founded in the 16th century by a descendant of Tamerlane, the TillaSheykh mosque, the Muyi Mubarak madrassa to which is attached a library with religious texts including what is believed to be the oldest existing Koran, marked with the blood of Caliph Osman himself, murdered in 655. The visits continue with the Chorsu bazaar (Grocery old market) which is available since 7th century is a huge open-air oriental market with a variety of fruit-vegetables and dried fruits and teeming and fragrant spices.