Djuma Mosque temple

Khiva

Khiva - the ancient city of Uzbekistan - a place of pilgrimage for tourists, historians and archaeologists

Itchan Kala

Itchan Kala is the walled inner town of Khiva. The old town retains more than 50 historic monuments and 250 old houses of the 18th or 19th centuries

Kalta Minar Minaret

The bright blue décor of the Kalta Minar Minaret is unique for Central Asia. Is the only structure which surface is completely covered with colored glazed tiles

Khiva, ethnographic

There are four ethnically diverse peoples in Khiva: the Sarts - proper and primitive owners of this land, their neighbors - the Karakalpaks, the Uzbeks - foreign conquerors and the Turkmens, attracted here by various benefits

 
Market of Khiva

Mukhammad Amin Khan Madrassah

Mukhammad Amin Khan Madrassah was the largest medieval ecclesiastical school of Khiva. Now there is the tourist hotel “Khiva” in the building