The Persian Caravanserai
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iran
The Persian Caravanserai is a 
UNESCO World Heritage Site made up of 54 components around Iran.
Understand
editJust as there are motels and truck stops along today's highways around the world, the roads in historical Persia - today's Iran - had many caravanserais, roadside inns where voyagers could eat and sleep. In 2023, 54 especially important, well preserved and/or architecturally interesting ones were listed as a world heritage site.
A typical caravanserai has several buildings, including stables for the caravans' horses and camels, grouped around a central courtyard. Some are quite large, able to accommodate several caravans. Some are in towns; the more rural ones are often fortified against the local bandits.
- See also: Silk_Road#Sleep, Persian Empire
Sites
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Map of The Persian Caravanserai
- 1 Deyr-e Gachin.
- 2 Noushirvān.
- 3 Āhovān.
- 4 Parand.
- 5 Robāt-e Sharaf.
- 6 Anjireh Ājori.
- 7 Anjireh Sangi.
- 8 Abbās Ābād Tāybād.
- 9 Jamāl Ābād.
- 10 Qelli.
- 11 Fakhr-e Dāvūd.
- 12 Sheikhali Khān.
- 13 Maranjāb.
- 14 Amin Ābād.
- 15 Gabr Ābād.
- 16 Mahyār.
- 17 Gaz.
- 18 Kūhpāyeh.
- 19 Mazinān.
- 20 Mehr.
- 21 Zafarāniyeh.
- 22 Fakhr Ābād.
- 23 Sarāyān.
- 24 Qasr-e Bahrām.
- 25 Mayāmey.
- 26 Abbās Ābād.
- 27 Miāndasht.
- 28 Zeynoddīn.
- 29 Meybod.
- 30 Farasfaj.
- 31 Īzadkhāst.
- 32 Bisotūn.
- 33 Ganjali Khān.
- 34 Yengeh Emām.
- 35 Khājeh Nazar.
- 36 Goujebel.
- 37 Sāeen.
- 38 Titi.
- 39 Dehdasht.
- 40 Khoy.
- 41 Bāgh-e Sheikh.
- 42 Neyestānak.
- 43 Chehel Pāyeh.
- 44 Khān.
- 45 Deh Mohammad.
- 46 Tāj Ābād.
- 47 Chāh kūrān.
- 48 Kharānaq.
- 49 Rashti.
- 50 Borāzjān.
- 51 Chameshk.
- 52 Afzal.
- 53 Bastak.
- 54 Saʿadossaltaneh.