Project Description
Independence Park - a symbol of modern Turkmenistan
Caught in Ashgabat, city of love, thousands of white marble and fountains, sure to visit the main park of the Turkmen capital - National Independence Park. This park is one of the attractions of the city and embodies the spirit of modern Turkmenistan.
The park is located on the southern outskirts of the city, near the Avenue of the 10th anniversary of well-being and Archabilskim prospectus. Its territory covers 140 it, It is accounting for nearly half of the total green area of Ashgabat.
Well-groomed tracks, marble staircases and porticos, flower beds and cozy benches - here there are all indispensable attributes of the holiday park. But Independence Park is best known monuments, located on its territory. Passing through the main avenue past the five-headed eagles, fountains and statues of national heroes, you walk up the wide marble stairs at the monument of Independence.
This 118-meter column, topped by a crescent moon with five stars, It symbolizes the unity of the five Turkmen tribes. The lower part of the monument is made in the form of a huge yurt, which is located inside the Museum of Independence.
Even if you do not like cultural trips to museums, you, undoubtedly, It will be very interesting to visit the museum and enjoy the richness of interior decoration and its huge ceremonial halls. One of the central exhibits of the museum here could be called sketch Turkmen Emblem, approved by the signature of the President of Turkmenistan. by the way, in front of the Independence Monument stands a golden statue of Turkmenbashi.
For concerts and public appearances in the park built outdoor amphitheater. A striking front of him a huge, as tall as a two-storey house, "Ruhnama" – moral and philosophical work of Turkmenbashi, that every citizen of the Republic is obliged to know, if not heart, the, anyway, good enough. In the evening, the green cover of the book, the monument is opened and the on-screen using a projector is shown a documentary film about the formation of the Turkmen nation.
Besides, the park is another interesting example of modern architecture of the Turkmen - pyramidal building a shopping center on the basis of the pentagonal. Here on the ground floor are shops, and the second - in offices.
From Independence Park close to the Museum of History and Ethnography and the president of the Museum, which are located on Avenue Archabilskom. Opposite the museum you can admire the great banner of the Turkmen flag, enshrined at the highest flagpole in the world, which has gone down in the Guinness Book of Records.
