Category: Iran Destinations

Iranians say Isfahan is half the world — and one afternoon in Naqsh-e Jahan Square makes the claim feel entirely reasonable. A complete guide to the city’s mosques, bridges, palaces, deserts, and the craft workshops that have run unchanged for five centuries.

Shiraz is the city Iranians call the City of Poets — gardens built as paradise on earth, the shrines of Hafez and Saadi, the Pink Mosque’s stained-glass dawn light, and Persepolis just an hour away. Here’s everything worth doing in Shiraz.

Tehran is a city of glorious contradiction — ancient bazaars beside contemporary galleries, royal palaces steps from ski gondolas. This guide covers the best things to do in Tehran: historical, culinary, adventurous, and everything in between.