Kashan Rosewater Festival

Kashan Rosewater Festival is a satisfaction to each nostril and the eyes. Kashan is pleasant regarded for its momentous houses, however it’s on this wasteland metropolis that the aromatic crimson Mohammadi rose blooms in first rate quantity, spreading to the vicinity of Ghamsar as well. Kashan county, in Iran’s principal Isfahan province, is a monochromatic panorama of gracefully arched, khaki-coloured homes unfold on dusty hills. Each spring, this wasteland location bursts into bloom, the hills filling with sensitive pastel and deep crimson roses in seas of green. From May to June, neighborhood employees cautiously struggle through the thorny timber of the location’s gol Mohammadi, or Mohammadi rose, selecting heaps of kilos of the flower to distill into rose water.

Visitors from throughout Iran and the arena pour into the in any other case sleepy town of Qamsar to have fun the aromatic harvest. While a number of Qamsar’s rose water producers have switched to business methods, many neighborhood manufacturers distill the liquid the use of a centuries-antique process, referred to as golab-giri.

Time: March – June

Where: Isfahan