Travel Reference
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(admission US$1.80; workouts 6am, 6pm & 8pm Sat-Thu)
Just off the north side of
Amir Chakhmaq Sq is the Saheb A Zaman Club Zurkhaneh, which is worth seeing both
for its Iranian brand of body building and because it's a quite an amazing structure. The
modern club is inside a cavernous
ab anbar
(water reservoir) built about 1580. Looking
like a 29m-high standing egg from the inside, and crowned with five burly
badgirs
, the
reservoir stored water for much of the town. The hour-long workouts in the Zurkhaneh are
an interesting window on Iranian culture; see (
Click here
)
. Note: only males are admitted.
