Quva

Quva is an old settlement in the Fergana Valley, amid the fertile lands between the surrounding mountain ranges. Excavations have revealed the remains of a Buddhist temple and sanctuary dating from the seventh and eighth centuries, with sculptures that recall the religious variety of early medieval Central Asia. The town belonged to a chain of settled places across the valley, connected by roads with the cities and passes to east and west. Its buried walls and buildings preserve traces of that older urban landscape.