Khiva
Khiva is a beautiful oasis city with ancient walls, minarets and unique clay buildings. Khiva is over 2500 years old. If you want to plunge into history and see the true beauty of the ancient East, visit Khiva. Everything here seems out of the ordinary – the cuisine, the people, the speech, even the architecture. Almost everything is preserved in its original form. The streets are paved with stone. Minarets, domes of madrasahs and mosques can be seen from everywhere like chess pieces. Even modern buildings are decorated antique.
Khiva is a real museum city full of unique architectural monuments associated with Islam. Majestic mosques and minarets, amazingly beautiful madrasahs and mausoleums, interesting museums and colorful streets - everything here is imbued with the spirit of the past, which you can plunge into!
What you can see in Khiva:
- The main fortress - Ichan-kala, Kunya-Ark fortress, Dishan-kala fortress;
- Ancient mosques and madrasahs, minarets, mausoleums - there are more than 100 of them in Khiva;
- Palaces and residences of Khiva rulers;
- Ancient caravanserais and baths;
- State Puppet Theater and Avesta Museum.
