{"id":6324,"date":"2020-08-31T00:39:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:52:59","slug":"the-village-of-kandovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/?p=6324","title":{"rendered":"The village of kandovan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The village of kandovan:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kandovan is the only rocky village all round the world in which people still live.\u00a0\u00a0 The history of civilization in this area dates back to 7 centuries ago when the people of nearby ran away from Mongol invasion and started to dig the rocks to settle down. Of course, we have similar villages in Turkey and USA but there is no one living there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6344\" src=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-iran-traveling-cente-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-iran-traveling-cente-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-iran-traveling-cente-1-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-iran-traveling-cente-1-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-iran-traveling-cente-1-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-iran-traveling-cente-1.jpg 1395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6345\" src=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-hotel-in-iran_0-1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-hotel-in-iran_0-1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-hotel-in-iran_0-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kandovan-hotel-in-iran_0-1-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kandovan itself means digging and really matches the story of the people who live there but on the other hand there are some guessing which believe in the existence of civilization there before Arab invasion. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To visit this masterpiece, you should go to the city of Oskou which is around 1 hour from the city of Tabriz.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only living rocky village all around the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[750],"tags":[1342,1344,1334,1343],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - 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