Immerse yourself in the ancient history of Tajikistan with a one-day tour of the Hissar Fortress. Explore this open-air museum, built 3000 years ago, and discover the legends and architectural wonders of Central Asia.
- Dushanbe - 09:00 - Pick up tourists from the hotel, and departure to the Hisar direction
- Hisor HIstorical and Cultural Preserve - 10:00 – arriving Hisar city and have a visit to museum in the center of the city. In museum we have received total information about the main advantages of Hisar as ancient city
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Hisor Fortress - 11:00 – visit Hisar Fortress and its museum
The Hisar Fortress used to be a palace of one of Bukhara Emirate becks. The fortress with 1 metre walls and loopholes for guns and cannons towered on a high hill’s slope and was carefully guarded. Inside there was a pool and a garden. Across from the fortress there was a noisy market square with a caravanserai and a variety of shops. Hisar Fortress and the town had been settled from VI BC to mid of XIX. It was the main administrative, political and economical centre of Hisar valley.
Akso, here in the fortress’s square we can make a horse riding bur at the request and expense of traveler
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Hisor - 13:00 - visit to the Teahouse “Kharbuza” (watermelon).
The teahouse “Kharbuza” — is a unique in the world, it was built in the form of a melon (the Taj: - kharbuza). The teahouse, with a height of 43 meters, length 100 meters, width of 55 meters, is designed to receive 2.3 thousand visitors at a time -
Dushanbe - 16:00 – way back to Dushanbe
17:00 – arriving Dushanbe, tour completed
- Air conditioning in vehicle
- Entrance fees included
- personal costs, alcohol drinks, food etc.
The Hissar Fortress, one of the most famous historical monuments of Tajikistan.
The fortress was built about 3000 years ago, during the heyday, when the routes of the Great Silk Road passed near Hissar. The Hissar Fortress is one of the oldest and largest architectural monuments of Central Asia.
Now it is an open-air museum with an area of 86 hectares, located on the site of an ancient settlement. It is located 30 km from the capital of Tajikistan.
For a long time, the Hissar fortress served as the residence of the governor of the Emir of Bukhara. To date, only two cylindrical towers and structures around the main gate, forming a pointed arch and built on the instructions of the emir of Bukhara in the XVI century.
There are legends about the Hissar Fortress, which have accumulated a lot over several millennia of known history. According to one, Afrosiyob built the citadel to protect himself from Rustam. They are both famous heroic characters of Firdousi’s famous epic poem ‘Shahnameh’.
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