Khiva City Tour by Flight

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Khiva – a perfectly preserved oasis city near the Kara Kum desert not far from Khorezm. It was the largest city in the desert area of the Silk Road, in the XIX century. Its history and historical significance goes far back in past, when even the Silk Road was not paved. According to legend, the birthplace of Zarathustra (Zoroaster), the founder of fire-worship is this city. True or not, but this religion flourished here for 1.3 thousand years, starting with the IV. BC, have a significant impact on the development of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and even Buddhism. Artists and architects of Khiva were famous for their skill and aesthetic perfection of their construction with exquisite carvings and elegant ornaments are astonishing up to this day. The oldest part of the city – Ichan-Kala – surrounded by walls 10 meters high at the western gate of Ichan-Kala is located citadel Kunya ark.. Inside – narrow streets with houses with flat roofs, mosques, palaces, minarets here longer than any other city in Central Asia – and all the buildings complement each other.
The appearance of modern forms of Khiva is mainly the architecture of Khiva Khanate period end XVIII- XX centuries. But here the ongoing archaeological excavations show that the basis of a number of relatively “young” are layers of ancient buildings which related to III AD, and even earlier centuries BC. e
Khiva – a unique example of an original pre-Soviet Central Asian city, a true open-air museum.