First night in Iran, mind-blowing hospitality and fingerprints (№17)
Finally, we’ve made it to Iran! What’s it like? Is it safe? How do locals treat foreigners? And many other questions we were anxiously asking ourselves on that day… till Iranians in the span of one evening proved to us that this country is the best for a traveller!
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Shiraz is one of Iran's five largest cities. Steve Hänisch visits the Vakil Mosque, Karim Khan Citadel, the Nasir ol Molk Mosque, the grave of the Persian poet Hafiz and the UNESCO World Heritage site of Persepolis.
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Iran Rebuilding Apadana ancient Persia palace, Marvdasht county بازسازي كاخ آپادانا مرودشت ايران
December 19, 2017 (Persian calendar 1396/9/28)
Fars province (استان فارس)
Marvdasht county (شهرستان مرودشت)
Apadana ancient Persian palace (كاخ باستاني آپادانا) Geo coordinate
29.9353859N, 52.8895161E
Iran Rebuilding Apadana ancient Persia palace, Marvdasht county
بازسازي كاخ آپادانا مرودشت ايران
Iran Persepolis museum, Queen Quarters, Marv-Dasht county موزه تخت جمشيد كاخ ملكه مرودشت ايران
March 30, 2018 (Persian calendar 1397/1/10)
Fars province (استان فارس)
Marv-Dasht county (شهرستان مرودشت)
Persepolis (Parseh پارسه) Geo coordinate
29°56′04″N, 52°53′29″E
Persepolis (Old Persian Pârsa پارسه, modern Takht-e Jamshid تخت جمشيد): Greek name of one of the capitals of the ancient Achaemenid Empire شاهنشاهي هخامنشيان, founded by king Darius the Great داريوش بزرگ (r.522-486 BCE).
There were several satellite sites, Naqš-e Rustam نقش رستم and Takht-e Rustam تخت جمشيد.
Queen's Quarters:
Queen's Quarters, northern façade
The Queen's Quarters is the name of several buildings in the southeastern part of the terrace of Persepolis. One of these buildings has been more or less reconstructed and is now in use as a museum, and as the office of the Persepolis archaeological complex.
The Queen's Quarters, now a museum
The decoration of the Queen's Quarters is not very different from the rooms of the king - reliefs of royal warriors fighting against lions and so on.
A famous inscription (known as the haram inscription or XPf) was found in the Queen's Quarters. It deals with Xerxes' accession to his father's throne and mentions that there were rival candidates:
My father Darius had other sons, but - thus was Ahuramazda's desire - my father Darius made me the largest [mathišta] after himself. When my father Darius went away from the throne, by the grace of Ahuramazda I became king on my father's throne.
One copy is in the Archaeological Museum of Tehran. Another copy of the same text is in the museum of Persepolis.
Iran Persepolis museum, Queen Quarters, Marv-Dasht county
موزه تخت جمشيد كاخ ملكه مرودشت ايران
Iran Rebuilding Naqsh-e Rostam Persia ancient site, Marvdasht county بازسازي نقش رستم ايران
December 11, 2017 (Persian calendar 1396/9/20)
Fars province (استان فارس)
Marv-Dasht county (شهرستان مرودشت)
Naqsh-e Rostam Persia ancient site (نقش رستم) Geo coordinate
29°59′20″N, 52°52′29″E
Naqsh-e Rustam نقش رستم is an ancient necropolis located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars Province, Iran. In Naghsh-e Rostam we can see four tombs and one building from Achaemenid dynasty with a group of ancient Iranian rock reliefs cut into the cliff, from Sassanid dynasty; the last important relief is from Elam dynasty and it dates back to 1000 BC.
Naqsh-e Rustam is the necropolis of the Achaemenid dynasty (500-330 BC), with four large tombs cut high into the cliff face. These have mainly architectural decoration, but the facades include large panels over the doorways, each very similar in content, with figures of the king being invested by a god, above a zone with rows of smaller figures bearing tribute, with soldiers and officials.
The three classes of figures are sharply differentiated in size. The entrance to each tomb is at the center of each cross, which opens onto a small chamber, where the king lay in a sarcophagus.
Well below the Achaemenid tombs, near ground level, are rock reliefs with large figures of Sassanian kings, some meeting gods, others in combat. The most famous shows the Sassanian king Shapur I on horseback, with the Roman Emperor Valerian bowing to him in submission, and Philip the Arab (an earlier emperor who paid Shapur tribute) holding Shapur's horse, while the dead Emperor Gordian III, killed in battle, lies beneath it (other identifications have been suggested).
This commemorates the Battle of Edessa in 260 AD, when Valerian became the only Roman Emperor who was captured as a prisoner of war, a lasting humiliation for the Romans. The placing of these reliefs clearly suggests the Sassanid intention to link themselves with the glories of the earlier Achaemenid Empire.
Iran Rebuilding Naqsh-e Rostam Persia ancient site, Marvdasht county
بازسازي نقش رستم ايران
Iran Discovers Persepolis palace South gate, Marvdasht county پيداشدن دروازه جنوبي تخت جمشيد ايران
August 20, 2017 (Persian calendar 1396/5/29)
Fars province (استان فارس)
Marvdasht county (شهرستان مرودشت)
Persepolis palace (تخت جمشيد) Goe coordinate
29°56′04″N, 52°53′29″E
Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BC). It is situated 60 km northeast of the city of Shiraz in Fars Province, Iran.
The earliest remains of Persepolis date back to 515 BC. It exemplifies the Achaemenid style of architecture. UNESCO declared the ruins of Persepolis a World Heritage Site in 1979.
Iran Discovers Persepolis palace South gate, Marvdasht county
پيداشدن دروازه جنوبي تخت جمشيد ايران
Iran Less Litter Life Better, Golestan protected national park جمع آوري زباله منطقه حفاظت شده گلستان
July 9, 2018 (Persian calendar 1397/4/18)
Golestan province (استان گلستان)
Golestan protected national park (منطقه حفاظت شده گلستان) Geo coordinate
33.1520589N, 50.3815836E
Iran Less Litter Life Better, Golestan protected national park
جمع آوري زباله منطقه حفاظت شده گلستان ايران
Iran Zanjan historical traditional bazar, Zanjan city بازار سنتي شهر زنجان ايران
August 19, 2017 (Persian calendar 1396/5/28)
Zanjan province (استان زنجان)
Zanjan city (شهر زنجان)
Iran Zanjan historical traditional bazar, Zanjan city
بازار سنتي شهر زنجان ايران
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