{"id":47494,"date":"2022-10-10T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T10:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/?p=47494"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:30:30","slug":"kurd-e-olia-underground-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/kurd-e-olia-underground-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurd-e Olia Underground City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kurd-e Olia underground city is located 45 km west of Isfahan city<\/a>\u00a0with an area of \u200b\u200babout 20,000 square meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This village has been one of the Armenian villages of Tiran and Koron cities since the time of Shah Abbas I Safavid until about one hundred years ago and has gradually turned into a Muslim village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an Armenian cemetery left in this village, with about 200 gravestones registered in the national register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history of the Kurd-e Olia underground city<\/a>, considering the archeological evidence, the type of architecture, interior spaces, and arches, belongs to the Parthian period and is about two thousand years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This underground city was designed and built to live in extreme weather conditions of the region. It was also used for defense and security.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Architectural Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This city with an area of \u200b\u200btwenty thousand square meters is built in a circular shape at a depth of eight meters and has eighty entrances on the ground level. This historical building has amazing winding chambers and corridors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A part of This historical building is similar to the Catacombs of Rome in Italy. All of these tunnels, which have wide corridors and nested chambers, have a way to each other and in the total form a large underground city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This underground structure, which has two floors and is connected by stairs, has eighty wells, which still have water at a depth of twelve to eighteen meters underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chambers and large halls of the building had different uses in the post-Parthian periods. The oxygen of this place is provided by entrance wells or tailwater. The roof of this city has a special layer and a lighting system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the entrances of this underground city are built toward the sunrise and are only one meter apart and none of them could be seen. Kurd-e Olia underground city has a unique design that makes it difficult to find the main routes if the enemy infiltrates it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, this underground city was discovered by the cultural heritage of Tiran and Koron and introduced as an ancient heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Kurd-e Olia underground city is located 45 km west of Isfahan city\u00a0with an area of \u200b\u200babout 20,000 square meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":47499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,305,110],"tags":[15868],"class_list":["post-47494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism-iran","category-how-to","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfiran.com\/mag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}