Dowlatabad Garden (باغ دولت آباد) is a historical garden in Yazd, Iran.
Its 33.8m tall windcatcher is the tallest adobe-made (mixture of clay, sand, and silt with qualities that dry & hard uniform mass) windcatcher in the world.
The garden was created in 1747 by Mohammad Taghi Khan Bafqi who was in charge of Yazd after Nader Shah's death. He began the construction by ordering a 65 kilometers long Qanat with 5 root branches to be made to transfer water from Mehriz county to the Dowlatabad. Currently the garden is irrigated using a semi deep well as the Qanat no longer provides water for the garden.
Due to my limit stay I couldn't explore the complete garden but it contains several buildings such as: Talar-e Ayeneh (mirror hall building), frontispiece house, Behesht-Aeen building, Badgir building, Haremsara (women quarters), Tehrani building, servants quarters, courthouse, kitchen (cook house), archway, cistern, Shotorkhane, summer and winter stables and a Qanat
Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2011, as part of the Persian gardens. It is also listed in UNESCO as a part of the historical city of Yazd in 2017#culture #iran #yazd #bijapur #friends #persian #iranculture #streetsofyazd #iranian #persianculture #streetsofyazd #heritagelover #heritageeexplorer #amirchakhmagh #mehrizkhatib #globalcitizen #l4l #f4f #yazdiran #tehran #irantourism #irantourist #iran🇮🇷 #ancientpersia
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In old times when people had no surveillance cameras or cctv how would anybody know whether the guest arrived at our home is a male or female?
There are two different loops on the same door hence the sound frequency differs which gives a signal, whether the person knocking is a male/female
If its a women knocking the door from outside, men living inside would go to other room and the female inside the home would come and greet the guest and vice versa.
Even today such doors are present in the historical city of Yazd, Iran.
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