Bestemmingen

Isfahan

The red village - a living museum of mud-brick Iran

Khuzestan

Khuzestan's bustling capital on the Karun River

Qazvin

Eagle's-nest fortresses of the medieval Assassins, hidden in the high Alborz.

Ardabil

Safavid cradle of mystics, carpets and volcanic hot springs

Mazandaran

Iran's otherworldly terraced springs

Kerman

The world's largest mud-brick city, risen from the rubble of 2003

Hormozgan

Persian Gulf port and gateway to Iran's islands

Gilan

Caspian port gateway to Anzali Lagoon

Fars

Shapur I's victory city, where Rome's defeat is carved in stone

Bushehr

Historic Persian Gulf port with Sunni-Bandari heritage

Sistan and Baluchestan

Iran’s tropical gateway to the Gulf of Oman

Yazd

The mountain that wept for a princess — Zoroastrianism's holiest cliff shrine

Khuzestan

The majestic Elamite ziggurat

Semnan

Ancient crossroads of Persian history

Kerman

The hottest place on Earth, where wind-carved cities of sand meet the darkest desert skies.

Khuzestan

Ancient city of brick and water

Fars

Birthplace of the Sassanid Empire, around the world's first perfectly circular city

Golestan

Gateway to Hyrcanian forests and Turkmen culture

Hamadan

Ancient city of history and culture

Kurdistan

Terraced Kurdish villages nestled in rugged mountains

Hormozgan

Dolphins at dawn, silver sands, and Portuguese ghosts off Qeshm

Hormozgan

Rainbow Island of vibrant mineral soils

Gilan / Mazandaran / Golestan (also Ardabil & North Khorasan)

A 50-million-year-old living relict: ancient broadleaf forest riding the Caspian's wall of cloud.

Isfahan

Half the world

East Azerbaijan

Iran's Armenian frontier — UNESCO monasteries in a red-rock canyon on the Aras

East Azerbaijan

A living beehive of stone — where families still dwell inside volcanic cones.

Isfahan

Rosewater, Persian gardens and merchant houses

Kerman

High-desert capital of Safavid splendor and the doorstep to the Lut

Kermanshah

Gateway to Persian history and Kurdish culture

Yazd

A crumbling mud-brick ghost town crowned by a minaret that trembles at a touch

Lorestan

Gateway to the Zagros Mountains

Hormozgan

Free-zone resort island with ancient wonders and pristine beaches

Gilan

Tea Capital of Iran

Kerman

A desert oasis of paradise gardens and a mystic's turquoise dome

East Azerbaijan

City of domes and the cradle of medieval astronomy

Gilan

Gateway to the Olasbelangah highlands

Razavi Khorasan

Iran's holiest city and spiritual heart of Shia Islam

Gilan

The stepped village where your neighbor's roof is your street.

Yazd

An adobe desert city where a 2,000-year-old citadel meets ice houses, pigeon towers, and the loom of the zilu

Isfahan

A 2,000-year-old desert oasis where one of Iran's oldest mosques meets qanats, mud-brick castles and silk-fine carpets.

Fars

Where Persia's god-kings sleep in the cliff

Isfahan

Mountain town of pears, saffron and a jewel-box Ilkhanid shrine

Razavi Khorasan

City of poets, philosophers, and turquoise

Fars

First capital of Cyrus the Great, where the Persian Empire began

Fars

The ceremonial heart of the Achaemenid Empire, carved in stone.

Qazvin

Iran's forgotten Safavid capital and the gateway to the Assassins' valley

Hormozgan

Largest Persian Gulf island

Qom Province

Iran's holy seminary city of golden domes and saffron sohan

Mazandaran

Caspian resort town famed for its natural wonders

Gilan

Gilan's vibrant capital and culinary hub

Tehran

Ancient city in the shadow of modern Tehran

Kerman

The adobe citadel Bam's earthquake never claimed.

Kurdistan

Kurdistan's cultural capital and UNESCO Creative City of Music

Ardabil

Iran's mineral spa town in the lap of Mount Sabalan

Mazandaran

Capital of Mazandaran, gateway to nature

Semnan

Desert-edge city with rich history

Fars

City of poets, wine and gardens

Khuzestan

The island city where Persians and Romans engineered water into a masterpiece.

Zanjan

The lost Mongol capital crowned by the world's oldest double-shell dome.

Khuzestan

Cradle of Civilization in Khuzestan

South Khorasan

Desert oasis town

East Azerbaijan

Silk Road crossroads where Persia meets the Caucasus

West Azerbaijan

Throne of Solomon: a Sassanid fire-temple ringed around a bottomless crater lake

Tehran

The capital: palaces, museums and mountains

Razavi Khorasan

Ancient city of poets and history

West Azerbaijan

Iran's mosaic of faiths beside a vanishing salt sea

Isfahan

White sands, white chadors, and the last bridge on the Zayandeh.

Yazd

City of windcatchers and the eternal flame

Zanjan

City of knives, filigree and the world's mightiest brick dome