About Kashan
One of the major cities of Isfahan Province with a 7,000-year history, Kashan is world-famous for its magnificent carpets, silk weaves, hand-painted tiles, and rosewater. Again it was during Shah Abbas I, that Kashan gained much importance. Kashan alleys are dotted with exquisite buildings with Persian Islamic designed architecture, Borujerdis Old House being a good example.
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Take a rural tour to the red village of Abyaneh
70km southeast of Kashan, on the slopes of Karkas mountain, is the 1,300-year-old village of Abyaneh. The people of the village still wear their traditional costumes and the literate ones speak the ancient Parthian Pahlavi language. Houses are made of red clay and are built on the mountain slope, each house’s roof serves as the courtyard of the house above. The Zoroastrian population of the village mingles happily with the Muslim inhabitants, keeping to their customs and observing their traditions.