Kandovan
Houses carved in the rock; once you would surely want to visit them. Some of these houses are at least 700 years old and are still inhabited. Most of the houses are two to four stories high. Legend has it that the first inhabitants of Kandovan moved here centuries ago to escape the invading Mongol army.
The typical cone shape of these ancient dwellings is the result of the flow of lava which, hardening, formed an easily carved porous stone, used as a base for some of the dwellings by the ancient inhabitants of Persia. The hardened lava measured from the beginning several meters of thickness, but the erosion of water succeeded, during a work that lasted millions of years, to form these typical lava cones.
