The 'Pink Mosque', built in the 1880s, whose stained-glass windows flood the prayer hall with coloured light in the early morning, falling across the Persian carpets.
Go soon after opening on a sunny morning. Shiraz, city of poets, also has the tombs of Hafez and Saadi and lovely gardens. Check travel advice for Iran first.
The ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, begun by Darius the Great in 518 BC, with grand staircases carved with processions of tribut…
A desert city of mud-brick lanes and wind catchers (badgirs) that cool the houses, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
One of the largest city squares in the world, built by Shah Abbas around 1600, surrounded by the blue-tiled Shah Mosque, the exquisite Sheikh Lotfoll…
The oldest monument in Tehran and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the former royal palace of the Qajar dynasty, set around a garden of pools and trees.
A large estate of palaces and gardens in the cool northern foothills of Tehran, once the summer residence of the Qajar shahs and later the Pahlavi ro…
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