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You go through a modest door...
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You catch a glimpse of a courtyard...
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Kashan is famous for its merchants' houses - spacious 19th century mansions with elaborately decorated facades and magnificent courtyard gardens
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Inside the paradise garden
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Paradise garden from above
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The walls that open towards the inner courtyard, are richly decorated, whereas the outside walls are left plain and undecorated
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Another magnificent stucco
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Magnificent ceiling
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Magnificent ceiling
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The diwan used to be the place where the owners of the house socialized
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An antique sewing machine on display. The whole house has been converted into a hotel, with former service rooms being used as shops and artisan boutiques
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Stained-glass windows
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Ameri Hotel is located in merchant's house from the 19th century
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Paradise garden
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Even thoug hthe unbearable 45-degree heat in the summer afternoon, the garden is green and the air around the pool is somewhat refreshing
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A smaller courtyard at Ameri Hotel
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The house is built from sun-burnt bricks
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The traditional construction method
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The towers on the roof deliver cool air even in summer
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The domes with small windows allow indirect sunlight into the rooms that are otherwise window-less
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Everywhere in Iran you can find structures and whole buildings built out of clay and dirt
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Rooftops of Kashan
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Rooftops of Kashan
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Abstrat design
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Rooftops of Kashan
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Rooftops of Kashan
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Rooftops of Kashan
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Self-portrait with the shadow in 45-degree midday Iranian sun. The minutes on the roof under the merciless sun were paintaking!
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Merchants have fled the houses after the Iranian revolution. For decades, the houses stood empty until recently they found a new application as hotels. The rooms in these hotels are expensive even by European standards
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The abandoned houses are being renovated one by one, making Kashan perhaps the most exquisite of the hidden Iranian jems for tourists!
