These remarkable structures are a common sight soaring above the rooftops of Yazd.
Yazd is home to a system of ancient engineering marvels that include an underground refrigeration structure called y akhchāl, an underground irrigation system called qanats, and even a network of couriers called pirradaziš that predate postal services in the US by more than 2,000 years.Īmong Yazd's ancient technologies is the wind catcher, or bâdgir in Persian. The city of Yazd in the desert of central Iran has long been a focal point for creative ingenuity.
