A country · 191 places · 27 regions
Iran, all of it.
191 curated places across 27 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.
The 4 biggest regions — Isfahan Province, Tehran Province, Fars Province and Yazd Province — read below as chapters, with 23 more waiting past them.
Chapter I · Isfahan Province · 29 places
Isfahan Province
A Safavid-era mosque on Isfahan's Naqsh-e Jahan Square, prized for its pale dome that shifts color with the light. The interior tilework culminates in a dazzling peacock motif at the center of the ceiling.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter II · Tehran Province · 24 places
Tehran Province
A sprawling network of covered corridors in southern Tehran that has served as the city's commercial heart for centuries. Traders here deal in everything from carpets and spices to gold and copperware, and the bazaar's guilds have long held sway over Iranian politics and economics.
✦ Autumn · $
Chapter III · Fars Province · 22 places
Fars Province
The ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, this terraced complex features grand staircases lined with carved reliefs of tribute-bearers. Towering columns and the Gate of All Nations recall its imperial scale.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter IV · Yazd Province · 14 places
Yazd Province
On the desert hills at the edge of Yazd stand two circular stone enclosures once used by the Zoroastrian community as places of excarnation, where the dead were exposed to the elements and birds rather than buried or cremated. Known as towers of silence, the roofless drums crown two low hills, with ritual buildings and cisterns clustered at their base. The practice was discontinued in the twentieth century. Visitors can climb to the towers, look out over the surrounding desert, and view a striking relic of ancient funerary custom.
✦ March–May, October–November · $
Regions of Iran
- Isfahan Province29
- Tehran Province24
- Fars Province22
- Yazd Province14
- Kerman Province10
- East Azarbaijan Province8
- Khuzestan Province8
- Mazandaran Province7
- Hormozgan Province6
- Razavi Khorasan Province6
- Hamadan Province4
- Qazvin Province4
- West Azarbaijan Province4
- Golestan Province3
- Semnan Province3
- Ardabil Province2
- Gilan Province2
- Kermanshah Province2
- Kurdistan Province2
- Sistan and Baluchestan Province2
- Alborz Province1
- Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province1
- Lorestan Province1
- Markazi Province1
- North Khorasan Province1
- South Khorasan Province1
- Zanjan Province1
Every place in Iran
