Why "Kervansara"?

Because its meaning implies a very important connection (one of the many points in common) between the two countries to which this page is dedicated and also forms a curious play on words with my first and last name (Posada).

Kervansaray is the Turkish name for the Persian term کاروانسرا ( pronounced Kārvānsarā, a result of the fusion of karvan: caravan and sara: palace, building with closed courtyards) and refers to all the inns scattered along the legendary Silk Road, which started in China and ended in Constantinople (now Istanbul), crossing ancient Persia. These buildings served as shelter for caravans of merchants and pilgrims and stables for their animals, in addition to offering lodging, treatment for the sick, shoe repair or horse shoeing.

In Turkey and Iran, they were only 30-40 kilometres apart (approximately a day's journey by camel), always located outside the cities. There was also another type of inn: urban inns called khan ( خان ) in Persian and Han in Turkish, smaller and less defensive in nature but also very numerous. In Turkey, the golden age of these buildings was the Seljuk period (13th century), when the Sultanate of Konya ordered the construction of more than 250 caravanserais throughout the country.

There are about a thousand of them in Iran, most of them from the Safavid period, and although most of them are abandoned, some very beautiful examples have survived. There was already a type of these inns spread along the Royal Persian Road in the Achaemenid era; this road, more than 2,500 km long, linked the city of Susa with Sardis, today part of the Turkish province of Manisa, not far from the port of Izmir on the Aegean Sea.

Today, some of these buildings can be visited, others serve as tea houses, restaurants, hotels or are still part of mosque and bazaar complexes, sometimes housing artisan guilds; many others have unfortunately fallen into disrepair and remain in ruins. I have had the opportunity to visit caravanserais in both Turkey and Iran on several occasions and I have always felt that they are surrounded by an aura of mystery, not in vain have their walls witnessed many centuries of history.

Probably the greatest value of the Silk Road, since its beginnings in the 1st century BC, was the cultural exchanges and that is also the foundation of this page, to bring Turkish and Persian culture to our customers. Just like the merchants of yesteryear did, I want to bring you the most beautiful, colorful and original designs with the guarantee of authenticity of being completely designed and made (most of them completely by hand) in these two beautiful countries.