Resident of Iranian Town Discovers Enormous Underground City While Digging Sewage Ditch in His Home

Discovering an underground world – under your home.

Nushabad Underground City. Image credit: Shervin / Alireza Tajfar / Franco Pecchio
If you are looking for a unique and adventurous experience in Iran, you might want to visit the Nushabad Underground City, a 1500-year-old subterranean wonder that was built as a refuge from invaders and harsh weather, and was rediscovered recently by a local resident (in a manner not too different from how this massive underground city was discovered in Turkey).

Nushabad (or Noosh Abad) is a small town near Kashan, in Isfahan province. The name means “the city of cold tasty water”, because according to legend, one of the Sassanian kings who passed by this area was impressed by the quality of the water from a well. He ordered to build a city around it and named it Anoushabad, which later became Nushabad.