Photos: Bahmanshir river
ISNA | Aghil Naeiminezhad: Bahmanshir River is a beautiful body of water in the city of Abadan located in Iran’s south-western province…
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Photos: Bam Citadel
Mehr | Mohsen Ranjabpoor: The Arg-e Bam or Bam Citadel is the largest adobe building in the world, located in Bam, a…
Photos: Spring snow covers tulip garden in Iran’s Karaj
Mehr | Aref Fathiakbari: The recent heavy snow has covered the tulip flowers exhibited in a festival underway in the city of…
Photos: San’ati Museum in Tehran home to 6,000 art pieces
ISNA | Mehdi Ghasemi: Ali-Akbar San’ati Museum, a gallery of the Iranian maestro’s artworks, is located in a historic building in central…
Photos: Tulips festival held in Iran’s Karaj
Tasnim | Ehsan Rasooli: Iran’s northern city of Karaj, west of Tehran, is hosting the sixth edition of Tulips Festival. 48 different…
Italy returns smuggled stone inscription to Iran
IRNA – Italian police returned a 17th century gravestone which has been smuggled out of Iran to the Iranian Embassy in Rome.…
Photos: Museum of Glass Paintings
ISNA | Shayan Mehrabi: Tehran’s Museum of Glass Painting, the only one of its kind in Iran and the second one in…
Sacred fire alive for 1,550 years at Iranian Zoroastrian temple
Press TV – Iran’s central city of Yazd is home to one of the fire temples most sacred to Zoroastrians worldwide with…
Tomshi; A tasty bread made of soil!
IFP – Hormuz, an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf, is home to the only mountain in the world whose soil is…
Photos: Falak-ol-Aflak castle West of Iran
Tasnim | Aziz Babaeinejad: Situated on the top of a large hill in the city of Khorramabad, capital of western Iranian province…
From Paris to Tehran: Two exhibitions highlight cross-cultural relations
MuseumNetwork.Sothebys.Com |ROXANE ZAND: France has spent its busiest year yet building cultural relations in the Middle East. With the recent opening of Treasures…
Photos: Nowruz tourists visit Sa’dabad Palace
ISNA | Abdolvahed Mirzadeh: The Saadabad Palace is a palace built by the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran in the Shemiran area of…
Qayqanaq; Delicious pancake indigenous to Iran’s Azarbaijan
IFP – Qayqanaq is an Iranian snack made with flour, eggs and sugar, almost similar to the common pancakes made in other…
Tea in Iranian culture
Iran Review – The kettle contains tea, one of the most important cornerstones of Iranian culture, and the tea house is its centuries-old…
Photos: Amu Nowruz national festival held in Iran ahead of New Year
Mehr | Farhad Safari: A national festival called Amu Nowruz has been held in the Iranian city of Qazvin which is located…
Photos: Susa museum; A gem located in Southern Iran
IRNA – The Archaeological Museum of Susa is located in the ancient city of Susa in Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, which is…
Iran can use tourism to improve its global image: Omani minister
IFP – Oman’s minster of heritage and culture has praised the huge number of tourist attractions in Iran, stressing the country’s great…
Photos: Rain in Iran’s Taq-e Bostan creates beautiful scenes
Tasnim | Farzad Menati: Winter rain in the Western Iranian province of Kermanshah has created very attractive scenes in the historic site…
4500-year-old antique trophy uncovered in Jiroft
MNA – Public and Revolution Prosecutor Hossein Salami revealed the discovery of a 4,500-year-old antique trophy in Jiroft, Kerman province. An antique…
Photos: Animal-lovers feed Quadrupeds near Tehran heights
ISNA | Alireza Bahrami: A group of Tehran citizens have joined the rangers in Lavasanat mountain hills to provide fodder for such…
Photos: Isfahan’s grand Bazaar, world’s longest roofed market
IRNA | Zahra Baqban: Qeysariyeh Bazaar, a historical market built in Isfahan during the 11th century, is located on the northern wing…
Persian domes: Embodiment of fine art, engineering marvels
Press TV | Arghavan Shamsara: A phenomenal architectural innovation in human history, the design of Persian domes has for thousands of years…
Photos: Tarik-Darreh ski resort
IFP – Alvand or Tarik-Darreh ski resort, located 10 kilometres southwest of Ganj-Nameh road, Hamadan, is among the most popular Iranian pistes. …
Iran to nominate world’s 2nd oldest tree for UNESCO Heritage List: Official
Tasnim – Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization (ICHTO) Ali Asghar Mounesan said the country plans to propose recognition…
Iran’s ‘Chovgan’: Meet the ancestor of the modern Polo game
Sputnik – The sporting game was included into the UNESCO list as Iran’s intangible cultural heritage on December 7, 2017. A spokesman…
Sorkhrud Wetland, a refuge for migratory birds
Tasnim – Flocks of migratory birds particularly geese have taken refuge at Sorkhrud wetland in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran. The…
Photos: 11th Int’l tourism exhibition in Tehran
IRNA | Mohammad Bbayi: The eleventh international Exhibition of Tourism, Hospitality and Related Industries wrapped up in the Iranian capital of Tehran on…
Old Paleolithic, Parthian works discovered in southern Iran
IRNA – The operations for the determination of the limits and privacy of the domain of the ancient Khorbas Cave in the…
Mother of Iranian Caravanserais
Tehran Times – The lonely Deyr-e Gachin caravanserai located on the outskirts of Qom, central Iran, is commonly known as the mother…
Photos: Iranian city of Khalkhal blanketed in snow
Mizan | The city of Khalkhal in Iran’s northwestern Ardabil province is covered with snow while many other parts of Iran are…
Iran to register Vank Cathedral as World Heritage
IFP – After registering three churches in the World Heritage List, Iran is trying to add other Armenian cathedrals like Isfahan’s “Vank”…
5,000-year old rock art discovered in Iran’s Isfahan province
IFP – In a recent discovery, archaeologists have found carvings on a 5,000-year-old stone in Iran’s central Isfahan province. The ancient rock…
Italian paper hails Yazd as shining pearl of Iran
IFP – An Italian daily newspaper has described the historic city of Yazd in central Iran as one of the major cultural…
Iran’s ancient village of little people
BBC | Shervin Abdolhamidi: In the first part of Jonathan Swift’s book Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver washes ashore on the island country…
Photos: Tarikhaneh Mosque
ISNA | Masoud Mohaghegh: Tarikhaneh Mosque is an ancient site in the central Iranian city of Damghan which dates back to two…
Piazoo: A yummy traditional Iranian food
IFP – Piazoo, a traditional food usually made in the Iranian city of Zanjan, is yet another Persian dish that tastes good…
Tabriz 2018: Most important event for Iran’s tourism sector
IFP – Iranian cultural heritage officials single out the “Tabriz 2018” as the most significant event in the country’s tourism sector this…
Photos: Autumn in Khalkhal-Asalem region
Tasnim | Mohsen Zare: Miles from the Caspian Sea, Khalkhal-Asalem region in north Iran’s Gilan province, with beautiful scenes of nature, attracts…
Photos: Culture & traditional food festival in western Iran
IRNA – Iranian culture and traditional food festival is underway in the city of Gachsaran in western Province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad…
Photos: Arasbaran area
Tasnim | Mehdi Daylari: Arasbaran is an attractive area northwest of Iran along border with Armenia and Azerbaijan. In-between the Caspian, Caucasus…