with desert architecture, an important Zoroastrian center
Yazd
One of the oldest cities of Iran, with desert architecture, an important Zoroastrian center since Sassanian time that has kept Fire Temple and Dakhmehs ( Towers of Silence) , a prosperous city standing at the cross – roads of the most important caravan routes from central Asia and India to the south and West has the name of Yazd . Marco polo, who came here on his way to China in 1212, called it ” The Good and Noble City of Yazd ” .