LA PLACE AMUR TIMUR AND BROADWAY

In the centre of Tashkent, on square Flotilla Timur, a huge statue by Timur on horseback replaced that of Karl Marx shortly after independence. Recently, with the construction of the new congress centre, the statue was designed to deal with the latter, while it was previously facing the pedestrian street Saligoh (ex-Karl Marx). All around, pluricentenaires trees were brutally shot to "set the horizon on the city". You will appreciate, or not, the view on the new shopping centres of the president's daughter, who has completely reviewed and corrected the city centre for his benefit….

To the west of the square is the colossal Uzbekistan hotel, whose architecture evokes an open book while the «web» of concrete on the façade symbolize Koranic writing. Many buildings, in Tashkent and Uzbekistan, have the facades hidden by massive geometric motifs evoking the cotton flower, the Koran or traditional Uzbek ornaments.