Beauty unveiled
THE CITY OF FRESH WATER
ifteen hundred years ago, the Sasanian king Khosrow, known for his wisdom, was in the middle of a desert in the vast Persian empire that stretched from Anatolia to Egypt on one side and to Pakistan on the other. The desert was in the centre of the land known as Fārs (of the Persians), characterised by extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night. There, Khosrow found an oasis, where he drank from an underground spring. The water seemed so fresh and pure to the “King of Kings” that he decided to declare, on that precise point, the foundation
