On d. W. The, the, the rom of vast country and the cradle of civilization from the persian gulf to the caspian sea. From snow kept the mountain ranges to burning deserts. The land by turns barren and 1st tile defines the culture and the lifestyle of its 85000000. 00 inhabitants. The the population in bodies any wrong that is both traditional and changing the boston, the stuff of fantasy. Yet rarely if floor the ron is home to an ancient culture that even today co exist with a plurality of life styles, traditions, and religion. The mountain ranges, desert plateaus, coastal plain, seen from above, the spectacular landscapes tell a story that goes back thousands of years revealing the identity of an entire people the the around in Central Plateau comprises vast deserts and arid landscapes. Its special climate and geography. Explain why only a small portion of this territory is habitable for humans. From the motor on job desert, we pass over caution is for han and the oasis cities built and irrigated zones along the main strategic and trade routes. In the Western Province of fars, the ruins of precipitous stand as reminders of the zenith of the persian empire. Almost one 3rd of the country is composed of desert or semi desert areas, with sand dunes up to 470 meters high. The ear temperatures can vary by more than 60 degrees celsius between day and night. The with its golden sand dunes, the mar on job desert is one of the rons most beautiful regions. The yet 1st century travellers have always taken a guide alone to brave it. Thats because police in the gym, evil spirits said to haunt the desert, has long kept the caravans away. Deeply rooted both an ancient legends and, and the koran. The superstition is still very much alive today. But to explore this unique landscape, todays desert adventures have traded in their camels for cars, the located some 300 kilometers away from the capital to iran. The marin job offers visitors, stunning nights, guys on spoiled by light pollution. The next to this desert lies now mock lake with itself across, under which only a few species of plants managed to survive. During the hot summer months, the lake dries up entirely. Then its large salt crystals turn it into a rons biggest natural mirror. And the modern day caravans make their way south with trucks carrying the salt markets, income and cushion. Since water is rare in the ron, the mountains act as reservoirs for the cities. They are linked to one another by a huge network of underground channels called cannot. The oldest ones were built more than 2500 years ago. The this, the regression system allows crops to be cultivated here, even though 80 percent of the territories suffers from drought. Thanks to the underground aqueducts, the water was protected from evaporation and distributed to wells dug along the cannot. In the mid 20th century, some 50000 cutoffs were still in operation. Any ron over a total length of 380000 kilometers. The distance between the earth and the moon, the today, thousands of channels still supply one or 2 we rons most area to areas and cannot, are employed and many other countries in the middle east. The caution is the 1st of the major, a waste of cities on road 71, which connects to ron to the persian gulf, the its a testament to the iranians, expertise in water, transportation, a prerequisite for life and the desert described as a paradise on earth. Augustine, like many gardens, any wrong is located outside the city, surrounded by a wall and 4 towers. Its water channels are a source of refreshment and life. The, the traditional water system enables plants and people to thrive despite the sweltering heat. Its symmetrical proportions and irrigation system provided inspiration for many european gardens, including the palace of her side in france. Of the outside cause shown, the air is filled with the centre burrows. Its carried by the wind from the surrounding fields. The rose is grown here and comes r benefit from the same water source that supplies the garden of biography and the International Reputation of these flowers distilled to produce rose water goes beyond. For a few marine moslems use, comes our rose water to wash the blackstone at the cupboard in mecca. The motives are not as a res family has been extracting this essence for generations. Mazda bought so gabe. I can go to a junior. She said yeah, oh, destiny has always been linked to the flowers. All sort of husker mount rose cultivation goes back to the time of the center. Were not going to have pretends of our region have grown roses and produce rose water for more than a 1000 years beer. That in the regions of kashana comes side of them known for producing the gross hours so much so that we have a ritual the which you know, we also to role in flower so not to go to the toner. The bellas, as how babies are covered in the flowers. I want to keep them life on protection against entities or the associates name. Again, the are home by 16 childhood. You might say knows a testament to give on life to those flowers that always sometimes my parents, my grandparents from the rooms that i didnt machine the to me, ill find them. Ok. That was a good one. What i was looking for that on a month to non carrying on the family tradition, whole capital shuttle time zone medium. I havent got all the rose bushes grow at the foot of a mountain that protects the valley from the burning heat. A 1000 meters high. It helps restrict the temperature variations to around 10 degrees celsius between day and night. Providing an ideal climate for mohammad the or damask roses. This geographical anomaly has turn to comes our into the biggest rose water Production Center in the middle east. Every year in april and may hundreds of women pick the flowers with great tear, and harvest some 26000 tons of petals. The call us to go to my home. I got a hold of jose to book today. This rose is mainly used to make perfumes that hobbies, traditionally, its essence was coveted for his more remarkable policies. Home in the woods at the post, sewed opposite the cart and also a business to fathom the mystery of the product. Charging me with only, theres also gonna sort of show a lot of pressure at his comes our lab and copper that motors are known as a re makes healing. Rosa oil according to tried and tested production methods. There is no high tech equipment here, just to traditional craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation that helps them extract and exceptional product. Thats good, good. Ill give you what that, what is your learning toddler, who have a center himself designed and the setup, the 1st still to extract roosevelt on the launch the industry. What about how much im say the how much a rose is a pound for the world, but it, tim doesnt go down as a energize here. Im chasing away the depression on the box stress and anguish unsure of time makes people have it set off off. So things are getting the phone your initial in the box you hold on is that to the use it for as many medicinal problems a year to ask variables in hospital. So they frequently put a bit of rose essence in the humidifiers that speed up, the patients recovery. That was, uh, that would be the pressure by adding other residences to the rose water mode. As our nozzle re creates dozens of therapeutic elixirs that attract new clients. The life and cushion may have been made possible by the cannot the underground water channels, but it was a river. This island, a route that made, is by hon. A magnificent metropolis. The former capital of persia was a major stop on the silk road without the river and its life giving water. The city could not have been built here. Though its bed runs through is for han. The river itself flows through the city just one month, a year, as its waters are diverted. Upstream to irrigate the surrounding fields. Though it was destroyed several times, as for hon is now 2500 years old and boasts some 2000000 residence in the evening. Sun, the cod you bridge, with its 23 arches, offers a glimpse of the architectural and Cultural Diversity of this city. Once called the pearl of persia, the illuminated at night the 17th century ali got blue palace reveals its full architectural beauty. Its large cupboard balconies served as a royal tribune during events that took place on the square below. The monarch and his guests would watch polo matches, archery demonstrations and wild animal fights. The, the royal mosque is one of the most beautiful, any ron, unlike many mosques which have been transformed over the centuries, it displays a remarkable unity of architecture and ornament. The knock should go home square is the heart of his, for hon. Its surrounded by the most important historical buildings up as a fall lead era, notably the royal mosque, the damaged and the 1980s during the iran iraq war. The mosque is undergoing a seemingly endless restoration the pock delve. A family of craftsmen who have passed on their knowledge from father to son for decades are helping to repair this architectural masterpiece. Amount on my part, when that carried out, wed love organizations have no limit over a 100 or to through come on the on our assignment name is mandy puck. Amys, im in charge of the restoration of the royal most of the east. She saw the house. Ive been working at this site for almost 6 years to the front of the guy with gods help will be done in 2 years. The. The dome is only one part of this huge renovation project, given the size of the building and its hundreds of thousands of mosaics. The task isnt met. The splendid file and style decor mix is plant motifs with chronic calligraphy. In the persian tradition, yellow is associated with the sun and divine light. While blue and turquoise symbolized the sky, the who do the hot a 50, a hot on the moon is covered with some 200000. 00 pieces that we have to put together and look at positive. Doing well. As i think clearly seeing this huge job, i can only admire the artists of the past and pay tribute that im not you to have this as not as i told him, i dont want to go about the list them on top of others just out here we are in the process of dismantling all the ceramic tiles. Do not do that. How could i could show me the each piece is numbered out of out of between a bunch of in the down in the workshop. I dont a piece the postal together to identify the dummy sparks and replace the target or mr for the show hot fix issue, then well bring them all back here and well kind of put them as they expect together and to fix them according to the original project has to be because you want more than likely to be the is the hon. Is the cradle of arts, any ron and home to many artisans to this day, most of its artist, some craftsmen were born here and fly their trade in the hundreds of workshops, a round enough shade. John square. Opposite the mosque is the city bizarre to stones, to his efforts. Hell have a better life one day, then a year or so when he has as i let us to settle, gosh, why without the range of the call, i have grown up among the cash k. At no time, hazel, and deeply attached to this land, the herds, this wild landscape, but its peaceful here. Of course, i lay out the, the side of it all to us and i want to pursue my studies. But i also want to stay here with we tried that. I really liked this place. I wouldnt want to do it out of the, the last on miscible stop on this journey through historical and contemporary. Iran is the countrys largest island. Cash them due to a strategic location. In the strait of hor, moves the island fell into the hands of many different powers over the century. It has retained the large arab population. Caching also has a unique eco system classified as a biosphere. Reserve. The higher a mangrove forest drive and this tropical coastal region. The higher a tree or grey mangrove is resilient to extreme weather and salt water. These mangrove also provide a sanctuary for fish. The cache them is home to several fishing villages and a few ship yards that still make the traditional boat, the land, the the boundary people here are attached to their ancestral culture. The boundary, literally the port people mainly live along the coast of the persian gulf. Once a major part of the maritime soap road of the clear news. So hosting a to run stylus travels to the island to find the expertise she needs for her creation. She works with boundary women who still practice the centuries old tradition of gold work embroidery. You just choose a kid, a tab ya team. John. Im really attracted to the nature of this region on the way where shes one of the reasons is the beautiful reflection of the sun on the waters of the person go to attend the silver glint of the fish that swim as Crystal Clear out to the on the side, as in global tide, how you mean i had him on the motif to use the yeah. Shapes of fish cartridges of trees is how does that seem inspired by what you can see in the village . I hear you to all that. Clearly, these motif swept past from generation to generation uninspired by this printer and home. I did read the lovely kim encarnacion and each region of the ron has its own dialect. He mentally cubicles, was that ok . And because the women of this region on not submit to the very talkative, really, you know, i felt that maybe i could convey the voice through there on this one. Im be who she had to fill the space between the peacock and the judges to do an audit. Yes, but more than that, well, move in that cash. Im due to sign on the thread. How many tally you make . I got 2 goals. One. So do you prefer to use just one kind of giving you shout a 100. You know me gather the tell you ive asked the girls that one branch and well see if it looks good. Well do all the branches with the same color out of food and you couldnt behind me, and im in a shrubbery. Fee is the wife of a bond. The re fisherman. She finds inspiration for her embroidery is in the world around her the course to the most. And i that host susie is a cuss me craft that the women the island do at home united card. It allows them to, or maybe though their own money in the host do 0 is no padre island because had a, we dont draw any outline of the most piece on the fabric before digital as the ideas come naturally from our minds our heart and we switch them right into the fabric you quote, im john mcgee, the shore kit made a new so far. No news as last order goes back to the start of the year. Measure of the rooster had just begun, so i know who knows what im do stuff and she asked if we could stitch wrister most again me. She was the perfect occasion to come up, tied and with a completely new headline did have solar photos that have said that stars flowers are you know, we can embroider them all with our eyes closed. But the rooster was a 1st floor, was he to the girls manage to come up and elaborate store and delicate design would get back to her and dont die on the and i mean their mother in mass we where is called a board. Good lisa, and its a very, with the tradition that concerned ive had to this day and i did the study is the log in. You can see marian, the girls where the mask to show me that they are now when i did to get in to get their hands had the completes, are his job. So its very important. Hey, job last 2 pieces. The, the head who studies a yet the story as on cash. And each village has its own shape of bark, and itll got a bad deal. Most of that, thats the on send the easy an older women get, the larger the mass in the more face it covers when applied behavioral tag mutual dukes has always been like that have with the whole issue now to initial bottom into the mask. Also protects us from this on that issue. Now what that is, you can say lee, the largest for goods that only reveal the isaac fish. And you can also be warned by women whose pin is a very sensitive spell this on that tissue. Now. Now what are the next week in many on the day when i come to the sea to fish after a long working. Okay. Last time, what counts for me is not the catch him on that small, not my main priority. He did get up more than enough. I mostly come here to is to be alone at the for them to come now. Now with a said to about the hussy that 5 oclock the from the sand, dune desert, sand, rocky, ply, toes to the sea. Iran is a country of contrast, a land of that fascinates through its very people, art of culture and history, as well as its stunning natural beauty, seen from above. The have you all ready for forgetting is necessary. Our brains use to store some things in order to keep the important thing. When does forget to come a disease friend warm scott for you home in the development of drugs against alzheimers and dementia. So please, dont forget to watch tomorrow today. In 30 minutes on d. W to need to be online. Thank you again the known alicia is italys oldest influencer. She shows how you can be a social media success. Even as a great grandmother. 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