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 . Marcopolo, who came here on his way to China in 1212, called it ” The Good and Noble City of Yazd ” .