Fasā

Fasa lies east of Shiraz on a fertile plain enclosed by the hills of Fars. Archaeological and linguistic evidence points to a settlement here at least as early as the Achaemenid period. In the tenth century the geographer al-Muqaddasi described a flourishing town with a wooden bazaar and a Friday mosque larger than that of Shiraz, its two courtyards joined by a covered passage. Orchards and fields occupy the plain, while wild almond, fig and pistachio grow on the surrounding hills.