Caravansarais

After the caravans traveled a while they would take a break at these caravansarais, and spend the night there to rest both themselves and their animals.

Featuring beautiful courtyards, caravansarais, and bath houses, its shops are deemed among the best places in Shiraz to buy all kinds of Persian rugs, spices, copper handicrafts and antiques.

These structures were called caravansarais which were inns with large courtyards with ample supplies of water for both drinking and other uses.