Astara, city of clay roofs

Extracted from Rasekhoon
At the coastal area of Astara, the coastal market can be mentioned. The market, which, as its name suggests, is located next to the beautiful Caspian coast and has booths differently.
Astara port is a beautiful and bordered city located along the western coast of the Caspian Sea and in the northernmost point of the Gilan province. This port is the only city in the province of Gilan, which has both a frontier and a water border with the neighboring country of the Republic of Azerbaijan, which has boosted trade. Usually travelers traveling to this city are unlikely to forget the coastal market and the ceilings covered with pottery in the villa houses.
Perhaps because of this, they have likened this beautiful port to the city of clay roofs. When you enter the city you see small signs in hands of children who are planning to help renting villas or suites to passengers. There are many narratives about naming this area.
According to one of these narratives, the city built in the area was called Aheste ro (going slowly) in the past because, when the passengers arrived in the coastal city in ancient times, due to their beauty, they had to move slowly and calmly, which later became the name of Astara. There is another narrative that says Astara is derived from two parts: AUST + ARRA; in Turkish Anest means "low" or "lower", and "Arra" means the land, which is why the area is also called flat plain or lowland. Its summer weather is warm and humid, and it has a mild winter, and the weather in the mountains is mild and even cool in the summer and cold in winter.
At the coastal area of Astara, the coastal market can be mentioned. The market, which, as its name suggests, is located next to the beautiful Caspian coast and has different booths. This great market has been welcomed by tourists for many years due to the variety of goods and prices that are available every year, so that it is impossible to go to this market and leave it empty-handed. Aside from the fact that Astara is the city of shopping, there are many tourist attractions that many travelers travel to Astara every year because of these attractions.
One of these beautiful attractions of God's nature is the unique effects of Heyran Mountain Pass. If you have a trip to this area, you will find out why this name was attributed to the area because we are really impressed by its beauty. The road, which seems like a huge snake wrapped around a large mountain, has risen to a great height. And we see cars that are riding on that long snake at that high altitude. When you go through this beautiful path, you will be faced with a intense turns every few minutes that you have to turn around, and when you go up you can see restaurants and entertainment halls along the road, most of which have a white board with black letters on them that invite you to eat a hot Ash-e dough, although you may be tempted to eat Ash-e dough and buy a jar of natural honey. The end of this curvy road reaches to the city of Namin and Ardebil province. In the past few years, the mountain road has made many advances, but in the not-too-distant times, two cars could barely pass on the road.
As previously mentioned, Astara is the last city and Heyran Mountain Pass is the last protected area in the province of Gilan. The Astara Estil Lagoon, located at the southern entrance of the city of Astara, is another spectacular tourist attraction of the city that is a wetland, a wetland where green and short trees have grown and make it more beautiful. In some warm summer days, the water of wetland comes down, but it always has shortage of water in the fall and winter.
In the early morning of spring, when you look at this wetland, it looks like a brown tennis court and returns to its first state with the sunrise and getting warm at noon. Astara County also has different parts. One of these is Lavandevil, about 15 km from the Astara to Anzali road. From this city, we can go to the seaside or the seafront, or vice versa, towards the mountains and the village of Kohta Kumah. The Lavandevil waterfall and the Ali Dashi and Kuthe Kumah hot springs are famous in this area and have a narrow and beautiful road that is spectacular throughout all seasons.
It is very convenient to travel to the Republic of Azerbaijan through Astara because of the land border.
It is boundary that is separated by a river and is prevented from passing through the barbed wire. The city of Astara was a part of the city of Ardabil under the division of state in 1316, and in 1337 it was subordinate to East Azerbaijan, and finally in the year 1339 it became part of the Golestan province. The city is located at the intersection of the commercial and transit road and trade routes between the Baku and Russia markets, the Azerbaijani market and the Rasht and Yerevan markets are carried out in this way. Also, it is one of the first cities in the province of Gilan, where the Customs House has been formed in and is now one of the main sources of income for residents and even the province of Gilan. Some of Astara's leisure, religious, and tourist sites are the mosque of Imamzadeh Ibrahim (AS) and Qassim (AS), the old cemetery of the Heyran village, the seafarers Russian market, the Tarhe Darya complex, Estil Lagoon, the green zone of Heyran , Abbasabad Garden, Wildlife Refuge, Kotte Komeh and Ali Dashi, Sadaf Coastal Project, Pir Ghotb al-Din Monument and Paradise of Cactus.