The most distinctive of Zafaraniyeh's adobe-faced buildings is the beehive-shaped ice house. Up until the 1970s locals cut up thick slabs of compacted winter snow and stored them inside between layers of straw. In the summer these blocks would be carried out into the fields to use as cool drinking water. The interior is currently empty but a plan to build a teahouse here has been mooted.
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Little-visited Zafaraniyeh village has a Safavid-era brick caravanserai in a state of photogenic part-collapse, but more importantly maintains a large…
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Little-visited Zafaraniyeh village has a Safavid-era brick caravanserai in a state of photogenic part-collapse, but more importantly maintains a large…
23.12 MILES
From the main road there's nothing showy about Sabzevar's Jameh Mosque, but that adds to the sense of discovery as you enter into a vast courtyard with…
23.16 MILES
The most obvious focal point in central Sabzevar is this remarkably tiled mausoleum, though the interior is rather plain and the majority of visitors when…