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Month: December 2020

Malik Museum

Malik Museum

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Malik Library-Museum is a significant treasury of the lasting artistic and cultural history of Iran. Being established by Haj Hossein Malek’s investment, Malik Museum is now located inside the area of National Garden in a historic texture of the city...
Marmar Palace in Ramsar

Marmar Palace in Ramsar

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When summer arrives, many passengers travel to Ramsar in Mazandaran province in order to recreate in the dense forests, spectacular countryside regions and sand coasts of the Caspian Sea. One of the most important attractions of Ramsar, that should not...
Azadi Tower

Azadi Tower

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Azadi tower on the campus of Azadi square with Hossein Amanat design and implementation has been built during the Pahlavi era (1349 Hijri). The Human Right charter of Cyrus the Great (The first written human rights of Cyrus the Great, the Achaemenid...
Museum of Hafttapeh

Museum of Hafttapeh

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Susa is considered as one of the oldest human habitats of the world. It is internationally known by monuments such as Chogha Zanbil and Apadana Palace. The former is an ancient Elamite complex that includes a ziggurat and the latter is the audience...
Saadabad Palace Complex

Saadabad Palace Complex

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The early building of Saadabad Palace Complex was constructed by Qajar kings and it was just 8000m2 in area in that time. Given to the good weather, Qajar kings used this place as their summer residence; however, after the 1299 coup when Pahlavi regime...
Stone Museum (Qazvin)

Stone Museum (Qazvin)

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Stone Museum with its historical name, Bath of Bolour, is one of the historical baths of Qazvin. There are many baths built along history in this city and when Shah Tahmasp chose Qazvin to be the capital of Iran in 962 AH the value of the city was...
Ethnography Museum of Qazvin

Ethnography Museum of Qazvin

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The Qazvin Museum of Ethnography was established in 1379 SH through purchasing and restoring Qajar bathhouse. This bath-museum is located in the old texture of the city in Ubayd Zakani street. There is no standing sample of a public bath from the...
Reza Abbasi Museum

Reza Abbasi Museum

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Reza Abbasi Museum was opened in 1356 S.H. in front of Electronic College of Khaje Nasir Toosi University and it was named Reza Abbasi in memory of the famous Kashan painter.  The building was originally belonged to an exhibition of furniture and...
Pars Museum

Pars Museum

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If you have visited Golestan Palace, you may know that the remaining of Karim Khan Zand has been buried under Karim Khani Nook and was later moved to Shiraz during Pahlavi dynasty. The question is what happened to them after that?Nazar Garden is one of...
Dezful Ethnography Museum

Dezful Ethnography Museum

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The Ethnography Museum of Dezful is placed in an old district named Kornasion and inside a historical bath with the same name, which is famous as Kornasion bath. The antiquity of this bath reaches the late of Zand and the early Qajar periods. The bath...
Vakil Historic Bath

Vakil Historic Bath

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Being the most famous historic bath in Shiraz, Vakil Bath is among the buildings constructed in 1187 A.H. at Karim Khan Zand’s command, in the district of Shah square, next to Vakil Mosque and Bazar, with 8660m2 built up area, 120meters length and...
Shahr-e Kord Archaeology Museum

Shahr-e Kord Archaeology Museum

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Known also as Parhizgar Bath, Shahr-e Kord Archaeology Museum was built in 1325 S.H., inside a basement belonged to Haj Hossein Parhizgar. The construction was carried out by Soltan Azadeh and Haj Abolghasem Azahe Chaleshtari investing who endowed...