Architecture sights in Tashkent
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Kosmonavtlar Station
It's worth taking the metro to reach some of the sites around town, if only to visit some of the lavishly decorated stations. A must is the Kosmonavtlar Station with its unearthly images of Amir Timur's astronomer grandson, Ulugbek and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, among others.
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Mausoleum of Abu Bakr Kaffal Shoshi
Near the mam Ismail al-Bukhari Islamic Institute is the little 16th-century Mausoleum of Abu Bakr Kaffal Shoshi, an Islamic scholar of the Shaybanid period. Enter through the back to view his large tomb and five smaller ones.
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Romanov Palace
East of the square across Rashidova kochasi, the animal-festooned facade of the Tsarist-era Romanov Palace faces the Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, and is now closed to the public.
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Wedding Palace
Southeast of the Friendship Palace is the equally appalling Wedding Palace, a vulgar, crooked chunk of Khrushchev-era concrete.
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