Khiva
The only fully preserved medieval city in Central Asia — 2.2 km of walls and 50 monuments inside a single fortress.
The face of Khiva
An entire 18th-century city
Khiva is the only place on earth where you can walk through an entire medieval city. Not a single quarter, not a reconstruction — a real, working 18th-19th century town with 8-metre clay walls and watchtowers around its perimeter.
Inside Ichan-Kala's walls
The inner city of Ichan-Kala fits 50 monuments into 26 hectares — mosques, madrasahs, palaces and caravanserais stand so close that two people sometimes can't pass between them. The turquoise Kalta-Minor tower was meant to be the tallest minaret in the Islamic world but was never finished — hence its stocky silhouette.
The era of the Khiva Khanate
Khiva was the capital of the Khanate of Khiva — one of the three Uzbek khanates of the 16th-20th centuries. The Tash-Khauli Palace with its carved wooden columns and ceramic tiles is a textbook of court life, still preserving its atmosphere.
«In Khiva, time does not pass — it waits while you walk through its epochs.»
— Traveller's notes
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