Attractions
The heart of ancient Samarkand, Registan Square is flanked by three gr…
Registan Square
From 40,000 UZS
Kok-Saray Hill (Samarkand Citadel) is a historic fortress mound in the…
Ruins of the "Kok-Saray" palace
Free entry
Mazar and memorial complex of Faqih Abu Lays Samarkandi is a sacred pi…
Mazar and memorial complex "Fakiha Abu Lais Samarkandi" (Imam al-Huda)
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Mausoleum and Complex of Imam ad-Darimi — a revered religious-memorial…
Mausoleum of "Imam ad-Darimi"
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Memorial complex of Makhdumi A'zam — a revered Sufi architectural ense…
Memorial complex "Makhdumi A'zam" (16th–17th c.)
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Khodzha Akhrar Vali Ensemble is a majestic memorial, religious, and sp…
Khodzha Akhrar Vali Ensemble (15th–17th centuries)
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Khon Said Imom Mosque is a historic quarter (guzar) mosque built by lo…
Mosque "Khon Said Imom" (17th c.)
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Mausoleum of Rukhabad (translated from Persian as "Abode of the Spirit…
Mavzoley "Rukhabad" («Obitel dukha», 1380 g.)
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"Сиабский" базар
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Обсерватория "Мирзо Улугбека"
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Городище "Афрасиаб"
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Соборная мечеть "Биби-Ханым"
From 30,000 UZS
Mausoleum of Gur-Emir (translated from Persian — "Tomb of the Emir") i…
Mausoleum "Gur-Emir"
From 50,000 UZS
Мавзолей "Ходжа Дониёр"
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Мечеть "Хазрет-Хызр"
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Мавзолей "аль-Матуриди"
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Memoriaд complex "Imam al-Bukhary"
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Ансабль "Шахи-Зинда"
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Church of the Holy Mother of God (Surb Astvatsatsin) — a historic temp…
Armenian Church "Surb Astvatsatsin" (1903)
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The Church of Saint John the Baptist is the only active Roman Catholic…
Church of "Svyatoy Ioann Krestitel" (1915–1916)
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Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos — the oldest con…
Church of the "Pokrova Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy" (1903–1905)
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The ancient Chorsu trading dome is a unique monument of 15th–18th-cent…
The ancient trading dome "Chorsu" (15th–18th centuries)
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A brick arch over the Zarafshan — all that is left of the seven-arched…
Sheybani Khan Bridge (on the Zarafshan River, 1502)
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Cathedral of Saint Alexius of Moscow (Svyato-Aleksiyevsky Cathedral) —…
St Alexius Cathedral
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Historical-ethnographic complex «Vechny Gorod» is a large-scale cultur…
Historical and ethnographic complex «Vechny Gorod»
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The Panjob Mosque and Madrasah Complex is a colorful Islamic architect…
The "Panjob" mosque and madrasah complex
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Mazar of Sheikh Nur ad-Din Basir (Qutbi Chahardahum) is a revered Musl…
Mazar "Sheikh Nur ad-Din Basir"
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Namazgoh Mosque in Samarkand is a historic suburban festive mosque (mu…
Namazgokh Mosque
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Ensemble of Khoja Abdi Berun — a majestic memorial and religious compl…
Ensemble "Khodzha Abdi Berun" (17th century)
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Khodzha Abdi Darun Ensemble is a secluded memorial and religious compl…
• Khodzha Abdi Darun Ensemble (9th–17th centuries)
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Chupan-Ata Mausoleum is an original monument of Timurid architecture f…
Mavzoley "Chupan-Ata"
Free entry
Мавзолей "Ишратхана"
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Мавзолей "Ак-Сарай"
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The defining postcard view of Bukhara and one of Uzbekistan’s most imp…
Po-i-Kalyan Ensemble ("Podnozhie Velikogo")
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A monumental citadel and one of the strongest starting points for disc…
Ark Fortress (5th century BCE — early 20th century)
The Vabkent Minaret is an outstanding architectural monument of the Ka…
"Vabkent" minaret
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Sayyid Amir Kulal was the sixth of the «Seven Pirs of Bukhara», an out…
Memorial complex "Sayid Amir Kulal" (Mir Kulal)
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Khoja Muhammad Boboi Samosi (Baba Sammasi) — the fifth of the «Seven P…
Khodzhi Mukhammada Baba Sammasi Memorial Complex
Free entry
Khoja Ali Ramitani, known as Khoja Azizon, is the fourth of the «Seven…
Khodja Ali Ramitani Memorial Complex
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Khoja Mahmud Anjir Fagnavi — the third of the «Seven Pirs of Bukhara»,…
Memorial complex "Khodzhi Makhmuda Anzhir Fagnavi"
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Khoja Muhammad Arif ar-Revgari, also known as Arif Revgari and Mohitob…
Mausoleum of Khoja Muhammad Arif ar-Revgari ("shining moon")
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The memorial complex of Khoja Abdulkhaliq Gijduvani is one of the main…
Abdulhalik Gijduvani Memorial Complex
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10,311 hectares on the middle Amu Darya: a tugai section with a mild c…
Kyzylkum Tugai and Sand Reserve
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A breeding centre for rare animals on twenty thousand hectares near Bu…
Jeyran Ecocentre
A square around a seventeenth-century pool under old mulberry trees: t…
Lyabi-Khauz Ensemble (16th–17th centuries)
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A sixteenth-century double madrasah: Abdullah Khan's and Modari Khan's…
The "Kosh-Madrasah" ensemble (double madrasah)
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A sixteenth-century madrasah and Friday mosque on the site of an old s…
Ensemble "Khodja Gaukushon" ("Killing bulls", 1570s)
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Central Asia's oldest madrasah, 1417: a restrained portal, astral patt…
Ensemble of the "Ulugbek" Madrasah (1417)
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The four minarets of 1807 in a residential quarter: four different tow…
Chor-Minor Madrasah ("Four Minarets", 1807)
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The oldest monument of Islamic architecture in Central Asia, late tent…
Mausoleum of the Samanids (turn of the 9th–10th centuries)
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The spring of Job: a twelfth-century mausoleum over a well, a tent-sha…
Mausoleum "Chashma-Ayub" («Istochnik Iova», 12th–16th centuries)
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The mosque of forty columns opposite the Ark: twenty carved wooden pil…
Bolo-Khauz Complex (1712)
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A palace of 1898 designed by Benois: Moorish mixed with baroque and em…
Palace of the Emir of Bukhara in Kagan (New Bukhara, 1898)
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The Bukharan emirs' country residence: the White Hall with ganch carvi…
Palace "Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa" («Star like the Moon»)
A khanaka and madrasah of the 1620s by the pool: the madrasah portal c…
Madrasah "Nadir Divan-begi" (1622)
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Bukhara's largest madrasah, 1568: 160 cells on two floors, niches and…
Kukeldash Madrasah (1568–1569)
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Central Asia's chief Sufi shrine, 12 km from the city: the founder's t…
Bakhautdin Naqshband Memorial Complex
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Four sixteenth-century covered bazaars at street crossings: money chan…
Trading domes (Taki) of Bukhara (1569–1570)
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The city of the dead five kilometres from Bukhara: courtyards of dakhm…
Chor-Bakr Memorial Complex
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An eighteenth-century women's Sufi retreat between oasis and desert: t…
Kiz-Bibi abode (18th century)
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A closed sixteenth-century square of forty-five cells by the Taqi-Sarr…
Nugay Caravanserai (1720–1721)
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The ninth-century mosque in the pit, on the site of a fire temple: its…
Magoki-Attari Mosque (12th–16th centuries)
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A merchant republic of Sogdia 60 km from Bukhara: a citadel, a shahris…
The ancient settlement of "Paykend" «Pompeii of the Asian continent» (4th c. BCE - 12th c. CE)
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The tomb of the sheikh of the world's sheikhs, by a thirteenth-century…
Mausoleum of Sayfiddin Bokharzi and Buyan-Quli Khan (13th–14th centuries)
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The Bukhar-khudat residence west of the city: a hundred hectares, a pa…
Varakhsha settlement (5th–6th centuries BCE)
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A sixteenth-century mosque-khanaka in the yards of a residential quart…
Khodja Zainutdin Complex (16th c.)
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A madrasah of 1652 facing Ulugbek's: a muqarnas iwan, a Chinese dragon…
Abdulaziz Khan Madrasah (1652)
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A late sixteenth-century mosque-khanaka for wandering dervishes: open…
Khanaka "Fayzabad" (late 16th century)
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Bukhara's northern gates of the sixteenth century: one of the eleven t…
Talipach Gates
Free entry
The medieval city inside Khiva behind a ten-metre wall: 60 monuments a…
"Ichan-Kala" Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve
Free entry
The Khivan khans' citadel: a kurinishkhana with an iwan on carved colu…
The "Kunya-Ark" fortress (17th–19th centuries)
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Khiva's oldest large madrasah, 1718: the entrance has sunk two metres,…
Shergazi-Khana Madrasah (18th century)
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A half-underground hammam of 1664 with under-floor heating: an endowme…
Baths "Anush-khana" (17th-century bathhouse complex)
A well in a small yard by the north-west wall, from which, by traditio…
Heyvak Well
Free entry
The tomb of Khiva's patron — a furrier, wrestler and poet: blue-and-wh…
Memorial complex "Pahlavon Mahmud" (13th–14th centuries)
A mosque without portals or domes: a hall on more than two hundred car…
Juma Mosque (10th–18th centuries)
Free entry
The white mosque by the east gate: a domed hall, iwans on carved woode…
Ak-Mosque (17th century)
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Allakuli Khan's 1830s palace: harem, guest court and courtroom linked…
Palace "Tash-Khauli" (19th century)
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Khiva's outer town: six kilometres of mud-brick wall raised in three y…
Dishan-Kala
Khiva's tallest minaret beside its smallest madrasah: 56.6 metres, a v…
Islam Khodja Complex
An unfinished minaret of 1855, entirely clad in glazed tile: eighty me…
Kalta-Minor Minaret
Central Asia's largest madrasah, 1855: 125 cells for 260 students, bal…
Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasah
An 1876 madrasah facing Kunya-Ark: 70 cells around a four-iwan courtya…
Madrasah "Muhammad Rahim-khan" (19th century)
The strongmen's gate of 1806 with its many-domed trading gallery, and…
Palvan-Darvoza Ensemble
One of Ichan-Kala's oldest monuments: bare clay brick outside and a la…
Said Alauddin Mausoleum
An inn, a warehouse and a bazaar in one 1833 building: living cells ab…
Allakuli Khan Caravanserai (19th century)
Free entry
An 1835 madrasah whose ground floor held the town library; today it ho…
Allakuli Khan Madrasah
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Central Asia's first metro and one of the world's most ornate: marble,…
Tashkent Metro (1977)
An 1891 art-nouveau mansion with bronze deer at the door — the residen…
Palace of "Prince Romanov" (1891)
A museum and rotunda across seventeen hectares opposite the TV tower,…
Memorial to the Victims of Repression
Twelve hectares of fountains, avenues and monuments: the Ezgulik arch,…
Independence Square
Free entry
Tashkent's spiritual centre around a 10th-century imam's grave: madras…
Hazrati Imam Complex
Free entry
A two-storey 15th-century khanaka with a T-shaped plan and a colonnade…
Mausoleum of Yunus Khan
Free entry
A memorial ensemble of the 14th-19th centuries 15 km from the city: th…
Zangiata Complex
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Tashkent's largest madrasah, built in 1570: a tall portal, majolica an…
Kukeldash Madrasah (1570)
Free entry
The 10th-century tomb that Hazrati Imam grew from: a rare khanaka-shap…
Mausoleum of Kaffal al-Shashi
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The Friday mosque on the hill above Chorsu: founded in 819, the presen…
Juma Mosque (Khoja Ahrar Vali)
Free entry
A UNESCO-listed cultural space: the Boysuntau mountains, the Teshik-Ta…
Boysun
Free entry
Rabat-i Malik and Sardoba Malik are a unique complex of the Karakhanid…
Sardoba Malik and Rabat-i Malik Caravanserai
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24,583 hectares on the south-western slopes of the Hissar, plus Aral-P…
Surkhan Reserve
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The family necropolis of the Termez sayyids: seventy metres of mausole…
Sultan Saodat Ensemble
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The black hills — a centre of Buddhism in the second to fourth centuri…
Karatepa Complex (2nd–4th century)
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A Bactrian fort on the cliff above the Amu Darya, found by a fisherman…
The "Airtam" ancient settlement (2nd c. BCE)
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A minaret of 1109 built of sixteen herringbone half-columns — the only…
Jarkurgan Minaret
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An eleventh-century Sufi lodge with a three-tier open front, and a cus…
Kukildor-Ota Khanaka
Free entry
A Samanid emir's summer residence of the ninth and tenth centuries: cl…
Kirk-Kiz
Free entry
A possible Alexandria on the Oxus at a river crossing: a moated citade…
The "Kampir-Tepa" ancient settlement (4th century BCE)
Free entry
The tomb of the sage of Termez, founder of a dervish order: blue domes…
Hakim at-Termezi Mausoleum
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A Kushan stupa of the first to third centuries: a fourteen-metre tower…
Buddhist stupa "Zurmalа" (1st–3rd century)
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A square town on sixteen hectares: walls nine metres thick with intern…
Zartepa
Free entry
A Buddhist temple and monastery of the first to third centuries in the…
Fayaz-Tepa
Free entry
The fortress of forty maidens, first to sixth centuries: two parts on…
Kyrk-Kyz-Kala
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A fortress without a single tower: its defence rested on four hundred…
The fortress "Janbas-Kala" (4th century BC)
Free entry
A round temple-tomb of the fourth century BC: an eighteen-sided citade…
"Koy-Krylgan-Kala" (4th century BCE)
Free entry
An almost square fortress of 65×63 metres with two-tier walls and arro…
The "Kyzyl-Kala" fortress (1st–2nd century)
Free entry
The fortress in the wind, of the fourth century BC, on a 60-metre hill…
The ancient settlement "Ayaz-Kala" (4th century)
Free entry
One of Khorezm's largest frontier fortresses: 35 hectares, ancient wal…
The "Bolshoy Guldursun" Fortress (2nd–1st century)
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The Khorezmian dynastic capital of the first to fourth centuries: a 50…
The ancient settlement "Toprak-Kala" (1st–4th centuries)
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A dynastic palace of the Kushan era whose paintings and sculpted portr…
Khalchayan
Free entry
A Kushan city where a thirty-six-kilogram hoard of gold was found, alo…
Dalverzin-Tepa
Free entry
A hundred-and-fifty-metre waterfall in a gorge among sun-scorched rock…
Sangardak Waterfall
Free entry