We stayed a relaxed week. It’s easy to spend hours to admire different mosques, bridges. Persian architecture is at its finest here. One could explore city monuments for months without coming to the end of them. The centre is the square, a huge rectangle enclosed by arcades. The most magnificent buildings around the square were built 400 years ago by Shah Abbas. The domes of the mosques and the minarets are tiled in Safavid blue. There used to be the nicest teahouse overlooking the square. It’s only but a memory now. The government had closed it. Officially to prevent young people from smoking too many water pipes. We walked down to arched bridges, to find the rest of the old city teahouses. They are all gone. Puritanism took up again. Luckily, European style cafes opened up in well hidden alleys of Armenian quarter of Jolfa. Great places to hang out with friends.
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