EnsemblesKhivaUNESCO World Heritage
Tash-Hauli Palace
The khans' main palace from the 1830s, built around courtyards for the harem, receptions and justice, with tall carved columns and blue tiled walls.
Places to see
Monuments, bazaars and landscapes across the country, with what each one is and how to visit it.
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Places
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EnsemblesBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Bolo Hauz Mosque
The emir's Friday mosque opposite the Ark, best known for its tall porch of slender carved wooden columns reflected in a small pool.
MausoleumsKhivaUNESCO World Heritage
Pakhlavan Mahmud Mausoleum
The shrine of Khiva's patron saint, a poet and wrestler, under a turquoise dome; a working place of pilgrimage with richly tiled rooms.
EnsemblesBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Chor Minor
A small gatehouse with four turquoise-domed towers, hidden in the lanes east of Lyabi-Hauz; all that remains of an early 19th-century madrasa.
EnsemblesKhivaUNESCO World Heritage
Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasa
The largest madrasa in Khiva, built in the 1850s next to Kalta Minor, with a tiled portal and two storeys of cells around a wide courtyard.
MausoleumsSamarkandUNESCO World Heritage
Tomb of Daniel (Khoja Doniyor)
A long, low mausoleum above the Siab stream, revered by Muslims, Christians and Jews as a resting place of the prophet Daniel.
EnsemblesKhivaUNESCO World Heritage
Allakuli Khan Madrasa
A tall-portalled madrasa from the 1830s near the East Gate, part of a trading quarter with a caravanserai and a covered market.
EnsemblesBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Ulugbek Madrasa
Built in 1417 by Ulugbek, Timur's grandson; the oldest surviving madrasa in Bukhara, facing the later Abdulaziz Khan madrasa across a narrow square.
EnsemblesSamarkandUNESCO World Heritage
Hazrat Khizr Mosque
A small mosque on a hill between Afrasiyab and the old city, with painted wooden porches and a view over Bibi-Khanym and Siab Bazaar.
EnsemblesBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Abdulaziz Khan Madrasa
A mid-17th-century madrasa opposite Ulugbek's, with rich, colourful tilework that includes plant motifs, vases and birds.
EnsemblesKhivaUNESCO World Heritage
Muhammad Rahim Khan Madrasa
A madrasa opposite Kunya-Ark, built for the khan who was also a poet under the pen name Feruz; it now tells the story of his reign.
MausoleumsSamarkandUNESCO World Heritage
Rukhobod Mausoleum
A plain brick mausoleum of a fourteenth-century Sufi sheikh, close to Gur-e-Amir and one of the older buildings in the city.
EnsemblesBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Magoki-Attari Mosque
A mosque sunk several metres below today's street level, with a carved 12th-century facade; it now holds a small carpet museum.
EnsemblesKhivaUNESCO World Heritage
Palvan Darvaza (East Gate)
The eastern gate of Itchan Kala, a long vaulted passage lined with niches that once led out to the main market and the road east.
MausoleumsSamarkandUNESCO World Heritage
Ishratkhona Mausoleum
A roofless fifteenth-century Timurid mausoleum in the east of the old city, where women and children of the dynasty were buried.
BazaarsBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Toki Sarrafon
The trading dome of the money changers, closest to Lyabi-Hauz; one of four 16th-century covered markets still used by traders.
EnsemblesSamarkandUNESCO World Heritage
Abdi Darun
A small shrine complex around the grave of a medieval jurist, with a mosque, a pool and old plane trees in a quiet neighbourhood.
BazaarsBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Toki Telpak Furushon
The hat sellers' dome, set over a junction of several streets between the other two domes; today a market for textiles, caps and books.
BazaarsBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Toki Zargaron
The jewellers' dome, the largest and northernmost of the trading domes, a few steps from the Ulugbek and Abdulaziz Khan madrasas.
BazaarsBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Tim of Abdullah Khan
A covered trading hall from the 1570s between the domes, once used by silk and wool traders, now home to carpet and textile sellers.
EnsemblesBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Khoja Gaukushon Ensemble
A 16th-century madrasa, mosque and minaret on a quiet square south of the trading domes, named after the cattle market that once stood here.
MuseumsBukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Zindan (Emir's prison)
The former prison of the emirate, behind the Ark, with a deep pit cell and a small museum about crime and punishment in old Bukhara.
EnsemblesKasri Orifon, east of BukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Bahouddin Naqshband Complex
The burial place of Bahouddin Naqshband, founder of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, east of Bukhara; one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Uzbekistan.
MausoleumsSumitan, west of BukharaUNESCO World Heritage
Chor-Bakr Necropolis
A walled "town of the dead" west of Bukhara where the Juybari sheikhs buried their family, with a mosque, khanaka and madrasa from the 16th century.