Susa

Khuzestan Province · Iran

Susa, Iran
Photo: Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
November to March
Budget
$
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One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities of the ancient world, layered with Elamite, Achaemenid, and later ruins. A conical shrine and a French-built castle rise above the mounded archaeological terraces.

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