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500px provided description: All architecture of Samarkand ? whether mosque, madrasah or mausoleum ? is distinctive for its blue-green colour. Registan Square follows the same tradition. The preference reflected a range of other, more favorable symbolic associations. As well as being the color that wards off the evil eye (a function that it still performs on the doors of many Central Asian houses), blue is the color of the sky and of water, the latter being a precariously rare resource in Central Asia and the Middle East. Abetting this clearly over determined fondness for the color is the fact that the region abounds in such minerals as lapis and turquoise.? [#architecture ,#arch ,#domes ,#historical ,#turquoise ,#heritage ,#tiles ,#mausoleum ,#historical landmark ,#international landmark ,#town square ,#majolica ,#Samarkand ,#Uzbekistan ,#Asia ,#UNESCO ,#National Geographic ,#Central Asia ,#UNESCO heritage site ,#Silk Road ,#lapis lazuli ,#Lonely Planet ,#Registan Square ,#Silk Route ,#Angshuman ,#Tilya-Kori Madrasah ,#Ulugh Beg Madrasah ,#Nategeo_Traveller ,#National Geographic Traveller]