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Dushanbe - Culture |
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With a cool backdrop of mountains, lazy tree-lined avenues and pale, oriental-fringed buildings, Dushanbe may be a good-looking city but personality-wise it's not the most exciting. It's history has been very troublesome. Therefore it has been culturaly asleep. The large, covered Barakat market is the centre of activity in Dushanbe. It's, quite colorful and interesting; the city has many other makeshift bazars which are composed of lines of people selling whatever you can imagine - shoes, books, machinery, anything that somebody will trade cash for.
The city does have two interesting museums: the professional Museum of Ethnography, which showcases Tajik art such as pottery, carpets, jewellery and musical instruments, and the Tajikistan Unified Museum, which has interesting exhibits on history, natural history and art. It's worth seeing a performance at Ayni Opera & Ballet Theatre since it has the finest interior in the city.
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