This is pretty impressive. These are houses in Iran that were allegedly built 700 years ago. I don’t know much about it but it looks like the houses were carved into stone, unless they molded them out of some cement like material 700 years ago. I would still not want to visit Iran, but these houses are pretty impressive.
…. stone houses for a stone-age culture…. that will eventually try to destroy all of the “modern-culture” of the world !!
Really beautiful case of form constrained by material nevertheless following function.
I believe these images are from Kandovan Iran; they are indeed very similar to sites in Turkey’s Cappadocia region (Goreme, especially).
Green housing at its finest. Really cool.
I lived in a similar house in Santorini, Greece. Was warm in winter, cool in summer. It could have a bit of a problem with humidity but we had a dehumidifier that ran a couple of hours a day and it was great! Not sure it would be so good without electricity, plumbing etc but cave houses are terrific and I’m so glad I got the chance to live in one for a while.
not much cross ventilation. I’ll bet the gym really reeks. And plumbing! What about plumbing?
Interesting… I’ve lived in a house of Stone all my life.
OMGosh! I have so thoroughly enjoyed this post! The building are interesting but being a creature of comfort, I would not like to live in one.
I think this world has many, many beautiful places…I would love to visit them all! But I’m just a working stiff trying to save to visit 200 miles down MY coast. lol We are blessed by a beautiful, interesting, dangerous, magnetizing world….so don’t waste your time on talk of bigotry or assume bigotry.
The people criticizing the web host for not wanting to visit Iran need to follow the news a little more closely. I’d love to visit Iran one day. But not today. Not this year.
what a load of troglodytes!
this is where i was born ,and i did not know
I am continually amazed how post after innocent post brings out the worst in people. What starts as a “Hey, check this out! This is pretty cool!” degrades in a matter of comments to obscenities and insults. What a lot of unhappy people there are.
And these are awesome. I would love to visit Iran.
But I am also more adventurous than most.
And we Americans have been taught by our media to have an innate fear of the middle east. I mean, after all, the only time we hear of anything over there happening is when something explodes. But they say, good news is no news. I have a friend who lives in Egypt, and over there the only things they hear about in America is crime and the other stuff that makes the news. I am told when visiting America, Egyptians are told to “be careful, it’s dangerous over there…”
All that to say. Don’t believe everything you hear. And fear doesn’t automatically make someone a bigot. Just ignorant and uninformed.
They are probably made of cement. Concrete and cement are not modern inventions, they have been around since the romans.
These pictures shows a very special village in Iran named Kandovan 29 km south of Tabriz. Dont seek with name because there is other village named Kandovan too. Just go 29 km south Tabriz you find plany photos.
Makes you want to get stoned.
what will happen if tsunami come? hmmmm….
Locate an atlas, lookup Iran then beat yourself over the head with it.
this looks like where Life of Brian was filmed
Yeah, nice brain power.
Nice pictures, though. I would have liked to see the inside or more of these house.
me don’t thinks straight…. how many is 7 centuries?
Definitely natural rock/sediment, modified in some case by the use of cement and mortared stones/bricks etc.
Looks like turkish Cappadoce ……
I’ll take a 2 bed 2 bath with a view of the catacombs please
This is very cool! I have never seen these.
lol is it just me or do they hell remind you of Morrowind?
they look like they could easily crumble. amazing tho
I stayed in a hotel like this in Kappadokya, Turkey. It was amazing.
Beautiful
I’ve actually been there before (My family’s Iranian, and my dad’s a photographer, so you could only imagine…) It’s a really beautiful village, and I’m sure my dad has photographs lying around from here. The village is far enough north to have some Iranians with blonde hair coloring. Absolutely gorgeous!
I do recommend you to visit Iran, but not now! You have to wait a bit till the government is kicked out! Then you can go there and freely enjoy this forgotten land!
maybe you like to visist some parts here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M7eWJkPsgo
This is a village called “kandovan” in the neighborhood of a city called Oskoo or oskoo.
These are natural(no cements) and have been created by local people.
You can google kandovan or kanduvan in google and you ‘ll find a lot of information
i have found this in web about kandovan ,hope to be informative
“Kandovan (also spelled Candovan) is a famous tourist village located in the northern Iranian mountain-side, near the cities Osku and Tabriz. It looks alot like the Cappadocian region in Turkey. The village is globally knownfor its unique rock-carved houses dating back more than 700 years. The Kandovan Tourism Cliff Hotel is the first of its kind in Iran and the second in the world, after the luxurious Yunak Evleri Cave Hotel, in Cappadocia, Turkey. the inhabitants have dug hideouts in the giant volcanic cliffs. They remained there till today. Their initial places slowly became elaborate houses with kitchens, hallways and bedrooms.
Most houses face south so residents enjoy sunlight during the day. The houses have windows with decorative glass. It is said that the houses have an air circulation system that keeps the homes cool in summer and warm in winter. Nowadays the houses have electrical connection, water piped in and even waste plumbing. Visitors can sleep in the 5 star Kandovan Tourism Cliff Hotel, located at the heart of the village or in one of the other stone-carved homes, if they can negotiate with the Farsi-speaking villagers. There are also many cafés along the river that passes through Kandovan, where tourists can indulge in drinking coffee and delicious zam-zam juice, all in a unique atmosphere dominated by sweet rose fragrances.”
Hi all,
This is an ancient village 45km away from City of Tabriz in East Azerbaijan province in Iran (Northwest of Iran). They are not cement but natural cave like structures made by volcanic materials. There are only two places in world, this one in Iran and second one in Turkey.
This is Kandovan village in north west of Iran, I’ve been there and it really worth visiting,
….shame theyll be destroyed in the next few years by the invasion of U.S. troops.
The houses are definitely built into a natural landscape, perhaps a medium density sandstone or something similar. Ancient people have done this all over the world including the Anastasi Indians in Northern Arizona.
I am living in Kandovan you confidently say that all the stone houses are old and they are right.
Let’s be friends at your service………
looks like cappadoccia.
and mostly likely made from volcanic ash
The fifth picture from the bottom isn’t in iran!
It’s in Cappadocia, Turkey, I was in the exactly same place, it’s an hotel, i can see the room in slept in. Anyways very nice pictures
I think that after seven centuries they have passed the crumble test
I’d hate to be the postman.
7th century….700 years ago….its 1410? Dam all those checks ive been writing are all wrong. That and way to be american…”i still dont want to go to Iran”? atta be media, you got them all where you want them.
To orignal poster – why would you not want to visit Iran?
I WANT TO LIVE ON CORUSCANT
I have just visited Iran and found that the Iranians were welcoming and friendly, without exception. It’s a marvellous country with a long history of culture, unfortunately blighted by a theocratic government – the result of dissatisfaction with the Western-supported regime of the last Shah. I am amazed that Westerners are treated so courteously, given the West’s history of intereference and exploitation in the Middle East.
wow! that would totaly gooing green
very nice picture indeed.
wiwi…You probably don’t know what country you are living in you tard.
These pictures are awesome!
Sand people are easily frightened, and they walk in single file so they can conceal their numbers.
the whole country will be living like that after WE BOMB THEM BACK YO THE STONE AGE! GODBLESS WHITE PROTESTANT AMERICANS EARNING MORE THAN $45K AND DRIVING A DOMESTIC CAR!
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