Kuy-Darvaza Gate

Kuy-Darvaza, that is, the Sheep Gate, stands on the eastern edge of Khiva and belongs to the wall of Dishan-Kala. The outer town was enclosed by a mud-brick wall in the eighteen forties under Allakuli Khan, and about a dozen gates led through it. Two round bastions with small turquoise domes flank the arched passage, above which runs a row of latticed windows. The wall around has survived only in fragments, while the gate itself was restored recently and the square before it cleared. From Ichan-Kala it is about a kilometre along a straight street.

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