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TEHRAN – Cheshmak caravansary, an abandoned roadside inn in western Iran, has undergone restoration.
Worn-out
bricks and traditional insulation of the rooftops will be amended in
this round of restoration, Lorestan province’s tourism chief said on
Monday.
The Safavid-era caravansary is one of those inns that Iran seeks to win a UNESCO recognition for, Seyyed Amin Qasemi said.
The Islamic Republic has recently
submitted an inclusive dossier on its caravansaries to the United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. The dossier
comprises the obligatory data about a selection of 56 caravansaries,
which are located in 24 provinces.
The structure is named after Shah Abbas
the Great (r. 1588 – 1629 AD), who ordered the construction of some one
thousand caravansaries across his empire.
Caravansary is a compound word combining
“caravan” with “sara”; the former stands for a group of travelers and
the latter means the building.
Iran’s earliest caravansarais were built
during the Achaemenid era (550 -330 BC). Centuries later, when Shah
Abbas I assumed power from 1588 – to 1629, he ordered the construction
of a network of caravansaries across the country.
For many travelers to Iran, staying in or
even visiting a centuries-old caravansary, can be a wide experience;
they have an opportunity to feel the past, a time travel back into a
forgotten age.
Cozy chambers that are meticulously laid
out around a vast courtyard may easily evoke spirits of the past. It’s
not hard to fancy the hustle and bustle of merchants bargaining on
prices, recounting their arduous journeys to one another while their
camels chewing hay!
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