The Ganjali Khan Complex is the architectural heart of Kerman — a single Safavid-era square laid out in the 1590s by the local governor Ganjali Khan, ringed by a bathhouse, mosque, caravanserai, mint, school, and the modest dome of his own tomb. The square itself is a quiet rectangle of cobbled paving with a small pool at its centre, surrounded on all sides by the original brick arcades.
The bathhouse is the highlight: an enormous vaulted chamber painted with frescoes and tiled with the original glazed work, now a museum with wax figures recreating the social life of a 17th-century hammam. The smaller mosque, with its blue tilework, and the mint, now a numismatic museum, are both worth twenty minutes. Buy a single combined ticket on arrival.