TEHRAN — On July 31 some 100 Austrian and Iranian mountaineers together with a group of European ambassadors will jointly ascend the Mount Damavand, sending a strong signal that Europe and Iran will make good on their promises to engage in an ever-increasing number of sectors and areas, Stefan Scholz, Vienna’s ambassador to Tehran has […]

Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization has allotted a budget of 20 billion rials ($0.4 million) to restore the infrastructure around Surt springs, locally known as Badab-e Surt, located in Mazandaran Province. According to Seifollah Farzaneh, head of the provincial ICHHTO office, the funds will be spent to build access roads, water transfer pipes […]

A food festival is scheduled to be held in parallel with a tourism exhibition in early September in Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi Province, to explore gastronomic delights of the religious tourism hub. “Mashhad’s international fairgrounds will host the festival from September 2 to 6, alongside an international exhibition of tourism and related industries,” Yousef Bidkhori, a […]

Flying through Lake Clark Pass in a four-seater Cessna 206 (the fifth seat had been removed to make room for baggage), I felt like I had cheated some long-established rule: Visit a National Park on Memorial Day weekend and you’re required to sit in traffic hell for hours. But there are no roads into Lake Clark […]

BOROUJERD, Jul. 20 – Iftikhar al-Islam Tabatabaei’s historical house is one of the most outstanding and scenery residential homes in Boroujerd which consists of three main parts: inner, outer and secluded. This historical house dates back to Qajar dynasty which is located on Aqa Ahmadi Alley, Helal Ahmar St., Safa Ave., Boroujerd.  

TEHRAN – The UNESCO-registered Imam Square has long been full of life thanks to being a prime destination for both domestic and foreign travelers. Best known as Naghsh-e Jahan Sq. (literary meaning “Image of the World”), the property is in Isfahan, central Iran. At 512m long and 163m wide, it is one of the largest […]

With its hardworking and hospitable people Honam is mostly an agricultural town and one of the most beautiful countrysides in Lorestan Province, west of Iran. The village is next to the Garrin Mountain, or Kuh-e Garin, and is a vast high-elevated mountain of the Zagros Mountains. The valley has an approximately 3623 meters high peak […]

The summer has set in for a few days now and the blazing, baking sun seems to be always shining in the cloudless sky and you could no longer fight back the urge to plan a getaway to places with cool temperature. For our family, the best destination was the northwestern province of Ardebil, which […]

The historical Pour Ashraf Castle is the jewel of a mansion nestled in an idyllic village in western Iran. The Pour Ashraf Castle is one of the country’s most fabulous historical monuments. It is located in Sheikh-Makan village some six kilometers southeast of the town of Darreh-Shahr in Ilam Province. The castle was built upon […]

Shahrestan Bridge is the oldest bridge on Zayandeh Rud in central Iran. The foundations are from the 3rd to 7th century Sasanid era, but the top was renovated in the 10th century by the Buyids and finally during the 11th century Seljuk period. However the architectural style is totally Sasanid. The bridge was built in […]