Terraces of Hawraman
Materials
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A vintage-style travel poster of Hawraman Takht, the stone village stacked up the side of a Zagros valley in Iranian Kurdistan. Tan houses climb the left of the artwork in tier after tier, each roof serving as the terrace of the house above; a stone bridge crosses the river at the bottom right, green terraced fields run up the far slope, and a snow-streaked ridge closes the distance. کردستان and هورامان تخت sit in the sky, with KURDISTAN and HAWRAMAN TAKHT along the base.
- Stepped stone houses with windows and balconies, rising the full height of the page
- Figures in Kurdish dress on the terraces and along the road
- Two vintage coaches parked on the cobbled bend below the village
- The Sirwan running white through the gorge under an arched stone bridge
- Terraced green fields and walnut trees opposite, under a bare limestone ridge
The houses are laid up in dry stone, without mortar, which is why the village looks like it grew out of the hillside rather than being set on it. UNESCO inscribed the whole valley in 2021 as the Cultural Landscape of Uramanat. Two other things come from this narrow place: the Avroman parchments, first-century BC documents found in a cave nearby and written in Greek and Parthian, and the Pir Shalyar ceremony, a midwinter rite with daf drums that the village still holds every year.
Perfect for
- Travel poster walls and gallery groupings
- Anyone with roots in Kurdistan
- Lovers of vernacular architecture and mountain landscapes
- Housewarming and travel-lover gifts