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The Ark Citadel is located in the city center, on Abu Havzi Kabir Street, next to the Registan Square.  The most convenient way to get around Bukhara is by taxi.  Local tariffs are very low, the older generation of Uzbeks is fluent in Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Those wishing to get acquainted with public transport in Bukhara should go to the stop “Registan”.  Route taxis No. 51, 53, 76, 56, 58 and buses No. 8, 6, 23 stop here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to Expect<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The perimeter of the external walls is 789.6 metres (2,591 ft), the area enclosed being 3.96 hectares (9.8 acres). The height of the walls varies from 16 to 20 metres (52 to 66 ft).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ceremonial entrance into the citadel is architecturally framed by two 18th-century towers. The upper parts of the towers are connected by a gallery, rooms, and terraces. A gradually rising ramp leads through a winch-raised portal and a covered long corridor to the mosque of Dzhuma. The covered corridor offers access to storerooms and prison cells. In the center of the Ark is located a large complex of buildings, one of the best-preserved being the mosque of Ul’dukhtaron, which is connected to legends of forty girls tortured and cast into a well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cost of visiting the Ark fortress in Bukhara depends on the site you want to see.\u00a0 Entrance to the main part of the territory – 20,000 soums.\u00a0 For an additional amount (to the guards in their arms, 10,000 sum per person), you will be opened the gates to the far part of the fortress, from which the best view of the Poi-Kalyan ensemble opens. Photo and video filming are paid additionally – 3000 sum.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can visit the fortress any day of the week.\u00a0 On Tuesdays, the fortress is open to tourists from 09:00 to 14:00, on the rest of the week – from 09:00 to 19:00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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