Kashan is an ancient town at the edge of desert in Iran, on the way from Tehran to Esfehan,

 Kashan is a city in the desert of the Esfahan province. The city is world famous for its carpets. But besides the carpets, Kashan also has a name for silk, ceramics, copperware and rosewater. The bazaar of Kashan is one of the most beautiful in Iran. It has many other interesting buildings inside it, like mosques, caravanserais, water storages and of course the fantastic mill .

The bazaar of Kashan

 The famous rosefields of Qamsar are near to Kashan, so you'll see rosewater stalls everywhere.

 This is one of the stalls, just outside of the Fin gardens. Rosewater is used in a lot of Iranian desserts, but the spaghetti-like ice cream is our favorite.

 The Borujerdis Old House is a 19th century merchant house. The building itself is a masterpiece and so are the paintings inside by the famous Iranian painter Kamal ol-Molk. The house is famous for its bad-girs, towers designed to lead the high winds to streetlevel, thus keeping the temperature low: very useful in the hot desert.

                            

The Shahzadeh shrine is maybe the only Islamic building in Iran with a pointy roof instead of a dome.

                         

                           

The Fin gardens : are one of the highlights of Kashan. This garden, with pools and fountains among fruit trees, has a wonderful lazy atmosphere. The fountains get their water from a natural spring. After flowing through the gardens, the water is used as drinkingwater.  

. Not far from the city center, Kashan’s finest Islamic complex and its largest mosque and madraseh, Masjed-e Agha Bozorg, is a pretty humble building with a simple dome and marvelous minarets. When entering the beautiful portal, the sunken courtyard is noticed.

                  

Kashan has abundant numbers of Mohammadi Rose from which high quality rosewater is extracted. The smell of this flower is amazing. Every year Kashan sends large amount of this rosewater to the holly city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia as a gift to wash the Kaba* with it.Every year, the city of Kashan and its neighborhood districts are the host of hundreds of thousands of tourists during the festival of Gol-o-Golab (Rose and Rosewater), in which rosewater is extracted from the sweet-scented Mohammadi Rose, indigenous to Iran, during special and traditional ceremonies.

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