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Nowhere in Isfahan is this rich aesthetic life of the Persians shown so well as during the promenade at the Khaju bridge.
There has probably always been a bridge of some sort at the southeastern corner of the city.
For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;
for another, it was here that one of the old caravan routes came in.
It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
It is a splendid structure.
From upstream it looks like a long arcaded box laid across the river ; ;
from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

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