Tour Guide, Tehran, Iran
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Here we talk about a trip to the first adobe city in the world with a history of several thousand years on the Iran classic tourism route. In this trip, we will visit Yazd unique architecture, Qanat, windcatchers, the historical texture of the city, and culture of people.
Yazd is a precious jewel in the heart of Iran's central desert between Kharanaq and Shirkooh Mountains, with beautiful and wind catchers architecture that is seen from all parts of the city. The city is known for patient people, amazing and beautiful brick architecture and rich culture, Urban desert dating back to the age of 5,000 years.
Ancient-historical city of Yazd dates back to the time of the monarchs of Yazdegerd I (Sassanid king) and is one of the desert cities which located in central parts of Iran. Yazd is the world’s first brick city and second historical city after Venice in Italy. Also, Yazd is called the windcatchers city. It has the most wind catchers in Iran. The benefit of this structure is that it turns heat into a cool and airy atmosphere. This structures built on a water pond. Windcatchers are very important originally architecture of Iran. Also, instead of Yazd, you can visit them in Kerman, Sirjan, Qeshm, Bandar-e-Abbas.
The world’s tallest windcatcher located in Dolat-Abad Garden and its height is 33.8 meters. It was built 270 years ago in Zandieh and Qajar era (270 years ago). Its beautiful architecture is the same time. This structure has a higher altitude than the roofs of the houses, which are visible from a far distance. It built as square or polygon. Manufactured materials of windcatchers have been adobe and have decorated the appearance of it.
Older Iranians have always been looking for a way to curb the burning heat of the desert areas because living in these areas. Finally, these structures were invented without any special tools. The most important point about this structures is completely engineered and many parameters as an area of the yard, the depth of the Qanat, the height of the windcatcher, the location of the cities, wind direction and others had been considered in their construction.