Piveh Zhan

Piveh Zhan lies in the upland country southwest of Mashhad, near the old route toward Nishapur. Caravanserais in this district provided shelter for travellers crossing Khorasan. Among them is the brick-built Alaqaband caravanserai near Deh Sorkh, whose form is associated with the Timurid period and which was repaired in later centuries. The village belongs to a landscape of mountain roads and scattered settlements serving movement between the two cities.