Western plains

Herat

Timurid tilework, wind, and the most ornamented brick in the country.

هرات

On building here

Herat has been a builder's city for six hundred years. The blue of its minarets turns up in ordinary houses too — a glazed panel over a doorway, a tiled iwan facing the courtyard — and the wind from the northwest shapes every plan that works here.

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