Old Town of Yazd Historic Area
Enjoy your walking be sides the history. Find out how ancient people lived and structured their houses, Get lost in the little streets and enjoy the beauty of Yazd!
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Enjoy your walking be sides the history. Find out how ancient people lived and structured their houses, Get lost in the little streets and enjoy the beauty of Yazd!
Yazd tower of silence or Zoroastrien's Dakhmeh is a type of structure used for funerary purposes by adherents of the Zoroastrian faith.
The Jameh Mosque of Yazd is the grand, congregational mosque of Yazd city. The mosque is depicted on the obverse of the Iranian 200 rials banknote.
Dolat Abad Garden, built around 1750, is a Persian architecture jewel which annually attracts thousands of domestic and foreign tourists visiting Iran.
The fire temple is a sanctuary with a burning flame of importance to Zoroastrian people. Inside you can find many info about the Zoroastrian cult and way of life.
Shish Badgiri Water Reservoir is one the famous ones in Yazd and it is located in a neighborhood with the same name. “Badgir” means ventilation tunnel and the “Shish” means six.
This 15th-century domed school is known as Alexander’s Prison because of a reference to this apparently dastardly place in a Hafez poem.