Kashan

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A Guideline for Your Trip to Kashan
Kashan is one of the most beautiful and oldest cities in Iran, which hosts many domestic and foreign tourists every year. If you have not seen Kashan yet, it's time to plan for a trip to the city of Flower and Rose water.
Kashan is one of the cities of Isfahan province and of course one of the oldest cities in Iran. This area hosts one of the world's first civilizations called Silak hills. The city has over 300,000 people which most of them are called Kashi, originally from Kashan, and their language is Persian with Kashani dialect.
Walking through the historic palaces of Kashan, you will be drowning in their spectacular architecture and for sure you will imagine the beauty of combine pieces of history. That is exactly why the famous carpet of Kashan has all the colors and designs. The visitors see the beauty and reflect it in their souls.
Herbal extracts are another part of Kashan's charm that rose water is the most famous one. Golabgiri ceremony, the fest of producing rose water, takes a lot of domestic and foreign tourists to Kashan. Before traveling to Kashan, let’s get acquainted with this beautiful city so join us on Alaedin Travel and read the following text to get to know everything before your trip to Iran.
Kashan weather
Kashan is a desert city and it has relatively hot summers and relatively cold winters. Early July to August is the hottest time in Kashan and the average temperature in this time reaches 33 degrees Celsius. The minimum and maximum temperatures at this time will reach 41.3 and 25 degrees Celsius. The coldest time of Kashan is from early January to early March, and the average city temperature at this time is 5 degrees Celsius. Minimum and maximum temperatures are 0 and 10 degrees Celsius respectively.
The best time to travel to Kashan is from early April to early June (average temperature is 22 ° C) and from early October to early November (average temperature is 20 ° C). Thus the best time to travel to Kashan is from May 15 to May 25, the time of the Golabgiri festival in the city of Qamsar, Kashan.
In the fall season, you can watch the autumn nature of the village of Abyaneh in Kashan. Autumn colors in the ancient allys of this village, locating 86 km south of Kashan, create beautiful landscapes. The village is about an hour far from Kashan.
To travel to Kashan, you could choose from Alaedin Travel’s tours and buy one online to experience the best travel services ever, in our tours, we would visit the following attractions
Fin Garden
Certainly one of the most beautiful and loveliest sights of Kashan, the beautiful Fine Garden, can be described as a perfect example of Iranian gardens. This place has also been historically very valuable.
An eye catching area which attracted the attention of many kings during history and was renovated by them is what you are going to visit in Fin Garden in Kashan.
Fin Bath
Two of Iran's most important and historic baths are located in the city of Kashan and in the southern part of the Garden of Fine which are known as the Great Bath (Royal Bath, built upon the order of Fath Ali Shah Qajar) and the Small Bathroom (Bathroom for the servants).
The small bathroom was built during Safavid rule and has a more ancient history than than the large bathroom, and the murder of Amir Kabir, one of the most bitter and most important historical and political events in ancient Iran, occurred in this bath.
Kashan Jame Mosque
The oldest monument in Kashan is the Jame Mosque, dating back to the kingdom of the Seljuqs. This valuable historical work was made by the daughter of Malek Ashtar named Safia Khatun.
This historic and valuable religious monument has been restored in various times such as Karim Khan Zand and Abdul Razag Khan, the ruler of Kashan. The remarkable beauties of this mosque include the art of calligraphy on the walls by artists such as Abdul Karim and Ibn Mohammad Hossein Mohammad Kazem Isfahani.
Agha Bozorg Mosque and School
The mosque and school of Agha Bozorg were built during the Qajar era, funded by Haj Mohammad Taghi Khanban, and its construction process was completed during the reign of Nasser-al-Din Shah. The dome of the building has a beautiful architecture and is considered to be so unique among other constructions of that time.
Niasar Fire Temple
The fourfold fire temple of the Sassanid era is located at the Naysar Highlands of Kashan, which was used in the distant past as a place to hold special ceremonies for the followers of the Zartosht religion. This fire temple is also known as Chahar Taqi and is one of the oldest and most spectacular examples of the four-faced Iranian architecture, which also suffered less damages in comparison to other similar works.
Sialk Hills
It's interesting and exciting to visit a place that can be one of the oldest civilizations of human history. Sialk hills of Kashan consists of two cemeteries each of them dating from more than 3500 BC and 3000 BC, and have different civilization layers found by archaeologists, the place is very attractive for historians and archaeologists. The ziggurat made of clay and pottery was excavated eighty years ago after a flood and is considered as historic and valuable works.
Kashan Souvenir
Vegetative distillates which rose water is the most famous one are one of the most exciting souvenirs in Kashan. Delicious Baklava, traditional muffins, Haji Badumi cookies, Pashmak and Ghotab are delicious cookies of Kashan. But you definietly have heard of the famous Kashan carpet. Carpets, rugs, handkerchiefs, pottery, tiles and Giveh are the precious handicrafts of Kashan that you can buy on a trip.