Travel to Iran

29/09/2014

Mazichal is a scenic village with pleasant weather and verdant landscape 20 kilometers southeast of Kelardasht in Mazandaran.

28/09/2014

Chah Kooh valley in Qeshm Island is made of Marl Sandstone which has holes created by the flow of rain water.

22/09/2014

Falak-ol-Aflak is a castle situated on the top of a large hill with the same name within the city of Khorramabad, the regional capital of Lorestan province, Iran. This gigantic structure was built during the Sassanid era (226–651).

14/09/2014

اگر معرفی جاذبه های فرهنگی و طبیعی ایران و پاک کردن تصویر منفی جهانیان از مردم ایران براتون مهمه لطفاً این پیج رو لایک و مطالبش رو به اشتراک بگذارید، همچنین به دوستانتون معرفی کنید، خصوصاً دوستان ایرانیتون که در خارج زندگی می کنند.

10/09/2014

The Biggest Roofed Marketplace in the World

The traditional bazaar of Tabriz in East Azarbaijan Province has an area of about one million square meters. It is the biggest extended roofed brick structure in the world. Due to its location on the ancient Silk Road, the city of Tabriz has been always a major hub of trade in various junctures of history.
It is one of Iran's UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

08/09/2014

The Strangest Aqueduct in the World

The two-story Mon aqueduct near the city of Ardestan in central Iran is one of the scientific and engineering feats of ancient times. The water flow in each level of the aqueduct which is 800 years old is quite independent and no water from one level penetrates into the other. The aqueduct is two kilometers long and has an output of 60 liters of water per second.

04/09/2014

The Most Ancient Dam in the World

Kebar Dam is located at the 25th km of the old Qom – Kashan road and is considered to belong to Sassanid era. Despite the lapse of over 1,000 years and many quakes in that region, the dam still stands upright.

03/09/2014

The World’s Highest Natural Arch

The mouth of Espahbod -e- Khorshid Cave (also a mythological fortress) is located on the side of the Firouzkouh road close to Doab bottleneck in Mazandaran Province. It is 19.75 meters long and 14.25 meters wide, which makes it the highest natural arch in the world. It stands about 15 meters above the ground and was discovered by speleologists in 1956.

02/09/2014

The Most Ancient Living Animal in the World

Triops is a species of water creatures that is considered a living fossil because it has been around for the past 220 million years and is, thus, the most ancient animal species known to man. This creature lives in seasonal ponds in Iran’s West Azarbaijan Province.

28/08/2014

The Highest Ventilator in the World

The octagonal ventilator (badgir) built at Dowlatabad Garden in Yazd, central Iran, is the tallest ventilator in the world at a height of 33 meters from the ground.

27/08/2014

The Oldest Adobe Structure in the World

The beautiful and ancient castle of Narin Qaleh in Meibod, Yazd Province, is the most prominent remaining relic of ancient urban architecture in that part of the country. Narin Qaleh is of high significance from various historical, geographical, architectural, urban, political, military, religious, and mythological viewpoints. The structure has been built on top of a hill which overlooks its surroundings and, therefore, can be seen from a long distance afar.

25/08/2014

The Most Ancient Useable Bridge in the World

This bridge is located at the center of the southwestern Iranian city of Dezful, in Khuzestan Province, and connects the eastern and western parts of the city. It has been a crossroads connecting the cities of Shushtar, Andimeshk and Dezful since very old times. According to historical accounts, the Dezful Bridge was built in 260 AD when Shapour I, the powerful Sassanid king, make 70,000 Roman captives to build the strong bridge. The bridge has 14 mouths and the Dez River flows underneath. The structure had been first repaired by the Iranian king, Azed-od-Dowleh Deylami, followed by further reconstructions under Safavid and Pahlavi dynasties. The pillars of the bridge, however, have remained unchanged as they were built by the Sassanid king.

21/08/2014

World’s Oldest Cedar Tree

A cedar tree near the city of Abarkouh is believed to be the oldest of its kind in the world as its age has been estimated at about 4,000-4,500 years. The girth of the tree is 11.4 meters on the ground and its height has been estimated at 25-28 meters. According to some local myths, the tree has been planted by the ancient Iranian prophet, Zoroaster.

20/08/2014

The Hottest Spring in the World

Qinarjeh hot-water spring in south of the city of Meshkin Shahr, East Azarbaijan Province, is located at a height of 1,240 meters from the sea level on the northern slope of Sabalan Mountain close to four other mineral springs. This spa, whose temperature stands at 86 degrees Centigrade, is the world’s hottest chloride mineral spring and has three mouths.
Due to therapeutic effects of minerals present in its water, especially high sulfur, the water of the spring is effective in treating such diseases as rickets and chronic forms of rheumatism. The high temperature of the spring also allays various kinds of pain and inflammation. There is a waterfall close to the spring which has added to the natural beauty and tourism attraction of Qinarjeh spring.

چشمه آبگرم معدنی قینرجه با دمای ۸۶درجه سانتیگراد بعنوان داغ‌ترین چشمه آب معدنی جهان در دامنه‌های ییلاقی كوه سبلان در شهرستان مشگین‌شهر واقع است. این آب گرم...

19/08/2014

The Biggest Non-Independent Island in the World

Qeshm is the world’s biggest non-independent island which is located in the most strategic location in the Persian Gulf; that is, at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz. The island is about 120 km long with varying width at various points. A large part of the northern coasts of the island is covered with mangrove forests over an area of 150 square kilometers (picture). Qeshm Island has an area of 1,491 square kilometers and is thus bigger than 23 countries in the world. For example, its area is 2.5 times that of Singapore, Bahrain and San Marino; 1.5 times that of Hong Kong, 5 times that of Maldives, and 70 times that of Macao.

18/08/2014

The Biggest Urban Adobe Fabric in the World

The central Iranian city of Yazd is one of the most important historical cities in the country which is also home to a complete collection of buildings related to various periods of time including traditional bazaars, mosques, gardens, buildings, fire temples and so forth.
In addition, the city contains the world’s biggest urban adobe fabric with an area of 743 hectares and a perimeter of 5,000 hectares, which is also the most pristine historical fabric in the entire country.

14/08/2014

The World’s Longest Salt Cave

Namakdan (salt shaker) Cave in Iran’s southern Qeshm Island is about 6,580 meters long. Before the cave was discovered, S***m Salt Cave in Palestine was considered the world’s longest salt cave with an overall length of 5,685 meters. The flow of salty water on the floor of the cave is a pleasant view. The humidity of the island and pe*******on of water into the cave has led to downpour of saturated salty water over the body of stalagmites continuously changing their outline.
Namakdan Cave includes a salty lake with a depth of one meter, which is located 160 meters from the mouth of the cave. There is an underground river which gushes out of the depths of Namakdan Mountain, finds its way out and after solving salt on its way, comes out on the slopes of the mountain. The water flow has created a natural pool in the pit which is located opposite to it whose color is white.

13/08/2014

The Tallest Brick Tower in the World

Gonbad-e Qabus tower is a monument in Gonbad-e Qabus, Iran, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012. It was built in 996 AD on the order of Qabus ibn Voshmgir, a king of Al-e Ziyar dynasty, in Jorjan (the present-day city of Gonbad-e Qabus), which was the capital city of their government. The tower stands on the top of Qabus ibn Voshmgir’s tomb.
The building has been constructed using bricks and mortar and has been shaped like a multifaceted cylinder, which consist of the foundation, a water reservoir, the body, and a conical dome. Qabus Tower is located on the top of an earthen hill which stands about 15 meters above the ground. The tower is 55 meters high which when added to the height of the hill, increases overall height of the tower from the ground to 70 meters.

12/08/2014

The Hottest Point on Earth

In the Lut Desert, just 80 km north of the city of Shahdad, there is a hill made up of volcanic lava with a total area of 480 square kilometers which is known as “Gandom-e Beryan (roasted wheat)” and also “Rig-e Soukhteh (burned sand)” which is the hottest point on earth with a temperature of 67 degrees centigrade in the shade! There is no form of life recognized at Gandom-e Beryan, which covers a space which measures 200 km long and 150 km wide.
The environmental conditions are so harsh that not only prevent the survival of all forms of fauna and flora, but even the bacteria cannot remain alive. As a result, dead bodies are not decomposed, but are dried under intense heat of the Sun.
Before this place was discovered by Professor Parviz Kordavani, the Libyan Desert in North Africa, where temperature goes as high up as 57.7 degrees Centigrade, was considered the hottest place on earth. That record has been now given to Gandom-e Beryan. If you actually want to visit the hottest point on the planet, you should plan your trip between November and April.

11/08/2014

The World’s Biggest Stone Structure:

The construction of Persepolis, or as has been recorded in some tablets “The City of the Persian People,” started on the order of King Darius I in 518 B.C., some 55 kilometers northeast of the city of Shiraz on the opposite of Marvdasht Plain. The building took 120 years to become complete.
The huge stone complex with an overall area of 135,000 square meters is the biggest Achaemenid building which is totally made of stone. The interesting point is that no mortar has been used to keep the stones together and big pieces of stone have been hinged together without the use of mortar. Of course, in some cases, iron fittings known as swallowtail have been also used. The Persepolis complex consists of seven halls, bas-relief carvings, staircases, columns and two stone mausoleums.

09/08/2014

Iran—like many other countries in the Middle East—is a beautiful country, and it’s filled with modern, progressive people who are otherwise depicted as primitive savages in the Western media. The country itself is filled with locales that vary from snowy mountains to verdant forests, flower-strewn plains, and a plethora of sights that would give Yosemite Park a run for its money.

Look at these pictures, and ask yourself if this country deserves to be glassed—because it doesn’t.
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Iran—like many other countries in the Middle East—is a beautiful country, and it's filled with m

07/08/2014

Andy Warhol is probably one of the most famous pop artists in the last 4 decades and some of his works including his painting of 32 Campbell’s Soup cans are now among the most iconic works in the pop art space. However, few might know that Andy Warhol actually did go to Iran in the 70s to create a portrait of then the Queen of Iran, Farah Pahlavi.
Andy Warhol visits Isfahan, Iran, in 1976.

06/08/2014

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Wolfgang Von Goethe are among the famous Western poets influenced by Persian poets including Hafiz, Saadi, Rumi, Firdusi and Khayyam.

05/08/2014

Badab Surt is an incredible natural site in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran, 95 kilometres south of the city of Sari. It comprises a range of stepped travertine terrace formations that has been created over thousands of years as flowing water from two mineral hot springs cooled and deposited carbonate minerals on the mountainside.

04/08/2014

Iran was pioneer in harnessing wind energy and the first windmill was created here in the 9th century. Iran built the earliest known windmills which resemble large paddle wheels.

Windmills have been used in Iran as early as the 7th century AD. Some of these are still operational in Nashtifan, near Khaf, northern east of Iran. آسیابهای...

03/08/2014

Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the Persian mathematician, geographer, and astronomer, is considered as the original father of algebra, one of the branches of mathematics.

02/08/2014

The largest desert of Iran is the Dasht-e Kavir located in the north-central part of the country. Iran’s deserts are classified as ‘rain shadow’ or orographic desserts because the mountain ranges to the west of the country are too high for rain to reach these regions.

28/07/2014

Northern part of Iran is covered by forests known as Shomal or ‘the jungles of Iran’. Shomal are the subtropical and temperate rainforest that have a cover of almost 55,000 sq. km along the southern shores of the Caspian Sea in Iran and Azerbaijan.

27/07/2014

Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī (854 CE – 925 CE), was a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist and chemist, philosopher and important figure in the history of medicine. He is well known as the discoverer of alcohol and vitriol (sulfuric acid).

26/07/2014

Being the site of Imam Reza shrine, Mashhad, the second-largest city in Iran, is one of the holiest Shi’a cities in the world. Every year around 15 to 20 million pilgrims visit the shrine of Imam Reza.