UNESCO World Heritage Site made up of 54 components around Iran.
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[edit]Just 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
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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.