Maymand
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How it came to be
At the end of a dry valley, at the southern tip of Iran's central mountains, lies the village of Maymand. Its people are semi-nomadic farmers and herders who move with their animals through the seasons. In winter they live lower in the valley, in houses carved into soft rock.
Families traditionally moved between four settlements, more recently three. From late winter to late spring they stay at Sar-e-Āghol by the southern fields, and in summer and early autumn at Sar-e-Bāgh by the seasonal rivers, in temporary houses of dry-stone walls under grass or branch roofs. The rock houses, called kiche, rise up to five tiers high. About 400 have been identified, and 123 survive intact.
In 2005 the village received the Melina Mercouri International Prize for the safeguarding of cultural landscapes, and it was inscribed in 2015. Only about 90 of the rock houses are lived in during winter, and the 2016 census counted 105 people in the village.
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