A taste of the ancient Silk Road The Asrlar Sadosi Festival in Khiva, Uzbekistan
The Asrlar Sadosi (Echo of the Centuries) Festival is an annual event dedicated to the preservation of traditional culture in Uzbekistan. It all started in 2008, when the Fund Forum, a public NGO set up by Her Excellency Gulnara Karimova, permanent representative to the UN and other international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador of Uzbekistan in Spain, organized the first festival promoting traditional culture in the city of Kitab, the homeland of Tamerlane, the fourteenth-century Central Asian statesman. The aim…
