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37 countrie citizens no need visa for Iran
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170126-iran-cancels-visas-for-37-countries/
The head of the Iranian Cultural, Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organisation, Zahra Ahmadipour, announced the abolition of entry visas for 37 countries, which includes tourist groups visiting Iran....
The Making of Sohan, Persian sweet!
After Iran nuclear deal: travel in Iran, Lonely Planet
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Read After the nuclear deal: travel in Iran by Lonely Planet
If you want to know about Iran
By Anthony Bourdian, from CNN
If you want to know about IRAN, I encourage you to watch this video !!
With incredible natural, cultural and religious attractions, Iran is hoping to reap tourism rewards.
Persian unique village, Masouleh!
Get know more about Iran
Guess Where These Beautiful Pictures Were Taken...
Must-See Pictures See if you can guess in which European country all of these beautiful pictures were taken: Actually, this is not Europe ... all of the photos were taken in Iran. Wait ... what? H...
Agronomy field between towns in North of Iran, close to Caspian Sea between Alborz mountain range.
Chinese tourists from Beijing in Rayen Citadel, Kerman, Iran
May this Year be filled with lots of love, joy, health along with success and prosperity for you and all you love.
"Christianity in Iran" by Pirouz Farmand & Ata Javid
Wishing you a happy 2015 with full of great achievements and success.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Amazing music video about Tehran, Iran by Venezuelan music band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46VTHLfEpX4
Meidan Emam, Isfahan, registered in word heritage sites in 1979
The Royal Square of Esfahan is a monument of Persian socio-cultural life during the Safawid period (until 1722). It is an urban phenomenon which is an exception in Iran where the cities are ordinarily tightly parcelled without spatial fluidity, the exception being the interior courts of the caravanserais. It is an example of the form of naturally vulnerable urban architecture.
The Shah of the Iranian dynasty of the Safawids, Abbas, who reigned from 1587 to 1628, chose as his capital Esfahan, which he magnificently embellished and remodelled. The centre of the city was accented by a vast Royal Square (Meidan-e Shah) which was so beautiful and so large that it was called 'The Image of the World'.
It is bordered on each side by four monumental buildings linked by a series of two-storey arcades: to the north, the Portia of Qeyssariyeh (1602-19), to the south, the Royal Mosque (1612-30), to the east, the Mosque of Sheyx Loffollah (1602-18) and to the west, the pavilion of Ali Qapu, a small Timurid palace (15th century), enlarged and decorated by the shah and his successors.
Of particular interest is the Royal Mosque, which is grafted on to the south side of the square by means of deep and immense sectioned porch. It is crowned by a half dome, whose interior walls are dressed with enamelled faïence mosaics, bound by two minarets, and prolonged to the south by an iwan (three-sided, vaulted hall open at one end), leading to an interior courtyard that describes a right angle. Thus, it is that, although it is in part on a north/south axis, the mosque is, in keeping with tradition, nonetheless, oriented north-east/south-east.
The pavilion of Ali'Qapu forms the monumental entrance to the palace zone and to the royal gardens which extend behind it. Its apartments, which are completely decorated with paintings and have wide exterior openings, are renowned. On the square is a high portal (48 m), flanked by several storeys of rooms and crowned by a covered terrace (talar), whose refined roofing is carried by thin wooden columns.
All of these architectural elements of the Meidan-e Shah, including the arcades, are adorned with a profusion of enamelled ceramic tiles with paintings, where the floral ornamental is dominant, flowering trees, ases, without a prejudice for the figured compositions in the style of Riza-i Abbasi, renowned both inside and outside of Persia, who was head of the school of painting at Esfahan during the reign of Shah Abbas. The Royal Mosque remains the most celebrated example of the colourful architecture which, in Iran, reached its height under the Safaw dynasty.
The Meidan-e Shah was the heart of the Safawid capital. Its vast sandy esplanade was used for promenades, assembling troops, playing polo, celebrations and for public executions. On all sides, the arcades house shops. Above the portal of the large bazaar of Qeyssariyeh is a tribune that accommodates musicians giving public concerts. The talar of Ali Qapu communicates, from behind, with the throne room where the king occasionally received ambassadors.
Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place (such as a forest, mountain, lake, island, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is listed by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as of special cultural or physical significance (see list of World Heritage Sites). The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 states' parties.which are elected by their General Assembly.
The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity. Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund. The programme was founded with the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage,which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. Since then, 190 states parties have ratified the Convention, making it one of the most adhered to international instruments.
In 1954, the government of Egypt decided to build the Aswan Dam (Aswan High Dam), an event that would deluge a valley containing treasures of ancient Egypt such as the Abu Simbel temples. UNESCO then launched a worldwide safeguarding campaign. The Abu Simbel and Philae temples were taken apart, moved to a higher location, and put back together piece by piece. Meanwhile, the Temple of Dendur was moved to Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Temple of Debod was moved to Parque del Oeste in Madrid.
The cost of the project was US$80 million, about $40 million of which was collected from 50 countries. The project was regarded as a success, and led to other safeguarding campaigns, saving Venice and its lagoon in Italy, the ruins of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan, and the Borobodur Temple Compounds in Indonesia. UNESCO then initiated, with the International Council on Monuments and Sites, a draft convention to protect the common cultural heritage of humanity.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site
Qalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile, produced in parts of India and in Iran. The word is derived from the Persian words ghalam (pen) and kari (craftmanship), meaning drawing with a pen (Ghalamkar).
Ghalamkar fabric is a type of Textile printing, patterned Iranian Fabric. The fabric is printed using patterned wooden stamps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghalamkar
Shahr-i-Sokhta (Burnt City) from Bronze Age (about 3200 B.C) was inscribed to UNESCO World Heritage List as 17th. World Heritage Site of Iran on June. 22nd., 2014 by the 38th. Session of the World Heritage Committee.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1158
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The Daria-i-Noor (Persian: دریای نور which means "Sea of light" in Persian; (also spelled Darya-ye Noor) is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing an estimated 182 carats (36 g). Its colour, pale pink, is one of the rarest to be found in diamonds. The exact whereabouts of the Daria-i-Noor is debatable. The diamond is said to be a part of the Iranian Crown Jewels and stored in the Central Bank of Iran in Tehran.
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daria-i-Noor
Naghshe-e-jahan Square
Photo by Arjang Entessari
Omar Khayyam's Day, May 18th.
Alike for those who for To-day prepare,
And those that after some To-morrow stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries
"Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There".
قومی متفکرند اندر ره دین
قومی به گمان فتاده در راه یقین
می ترسم از آن که بانگ آید روزی
"کای بی خبران راه نه آنست و نه این"
Omar Khayyám, poet of wisdom, awareness and thought!
Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131; Persian: غیاث الدین ابوالفتح عمر ابراهیم خیام نیشابورﻯ, pronounced [xæjˈjɒːm]) was a Persian polymath, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, and Islamic theology.
Born in Nishapur in North Eastern Iran, at a young age he moved to Samarkand and obtained his education there. Afterwards he moved to Bukhara and became established as one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period. He is the author of one of the most important treatises on algebra written before modern times, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which includes a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle. He contributed to a calendar reform.
His significance as a philosopher and teacher, and his few remaining philosophical works, have not received the same attention as his scientific and poetic writings. Al-Zamakhshari referred to him as “the philosopher of the world”. Many sources have testified that he taught for decades the philosophy of Avicenna in Nishapur where Khayyám was born and buried and where his mausoleum today remains a masterpiece of Iranian architecture visited by many people every year.
Outside Iran and Persian speaking countries, Khayyám has had an impact on literature and societies through the translation of his works and popularization by other scholars. The greatest such impact was in English-speaking countries; the English scholar Thomas Hyde (1636–1703) was the first non-Persian to study him. The most influential of all was Edward FitzGerald (1809–83),[6] who made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyám's rather small number of quatrains (Persian: رباعیات rubāʿiyāt) in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Omar Khayyám died in 1131 and is buried in the Khayyam Garden at the mausoleum of Imamzadeh Mahruq in Nishapur. In 1963 the mausoleum of Omar Khayyam was constructed on the site by Hooshang Seyhoun.
Name
غیاث الدین Ghiyāth ad-Din - means "the Shoulder of the Faith" and implies the knowledge of the Quran.
ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم Abu'l-Fat'h 'Umar ibn Ibrāhīm - Abu means father, Fat'h means conqueror, 'Umar means life, Ibrahim is the name of the father.
خیام Khayyām - means "tent maker" it is a byname derived from the father's craft.
نیشابورﻯ Nīshāpūrī - is the link to his hometown of Nishapur.
Golestan Palace, Wind Tower
Tehran, Iran
Golestān Palace (Persian: کاخ گلستان) pronounced "Kakheh Golestān" is the former royal Qajar complex in Iran's capital city.
The oldest of the historic monuments in Tehran, a world heritage, the Golestan Palace (also Gulistan Palace) (The Rose Garden Palace) belongs to a group of royal buildings that were once enclosed within the mud-thatched walls of Tehran’s Historic Arg (citadel).
Emarat Badgir (Building of the Wind Towers) was constructed during the reign of Fath Ali Shah (circa 1806). The building underwent major renovations, including structural changes, during the reign of Nasser-ol-Din Shah. A watercolor rendering by Mahmood Khan Malek-ol-Shoara depicts the original structure prior to renovations,.
The building is flanked by two rooms known as goshvar (earrings). There is a central room which boasts the finest stained glass window in Golestan Palace. Outside, there are four wind towers of blue, yellow and black glazed tiles and a golden cupola. The wind towers are constructed to allow the cooling wind to move through the structure.
People of Tehran are happy! Watch and Share Our Happiness!
Let the world hear us! we are happy and we deserve to be
تهران , شهر بدون غم... Tehran ,city without sorrow طهران مدينة بلا حزن 德黑兰市无忧愁 Тегеран Город без печали दु: ख के बिना तेहरान शहर
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