Nighttime Alleydiving in Birjand’s Old Town

Ali Torkzadeh
Escape from Tehran
Published in
1 min readApr 17, 2018

The dusty alleys behind the Birjand’s bazaar contain architecture of the days gone by. A quiet stroll at night made me nostalgic, followed by the usual wonderment how could a people abandon such symmetrical beauty for the the monstrosity that passes as Iran’s modern architecture.

Originally published at Escape from Tehran.

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