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Cultural Landscape of Maymand

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Iran Travel Booking > About Iran > World Heritage Site in Iran > Maymand Maymand is a self-contained, semi-arid area at the end of a valley at the southern extremity of Iran’s central mountains. The villagers are semi-nomadic agro-pastoralists. They raise their animals on mountain pastures, living in temporary settlements in spring and autumn. During the winter months they live lower down the valley in cave dwellings […]

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Bisotun

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Iran Travel Booking > About Iran > World Heritage Site in Iran > Bisotun Bisotun is located along the ancient trade route linking the Iranian high plateau with Mesopotamia and features remains from the prehistoric times to the Median, Achaemenid, Sassanian, and Ilkhanid periods. The principal monument of this archaeological site is the bas-relief and cuneiform inscription ordered by Darius […]

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Bam and its Cultural Landscape

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Iran Travel Booking > About Iran > World Heritage Site in Iran > Bam Bam is situated in a desert environment on the southern edge of the Iranian high plateau. The origins of Bam can be traced back to the Achaemenid period (6th to 4th centuries BC). Its heyday was from the 7th to 11th centuries, being at the crossroads […]

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Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran

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Iran Travel Booking > About Iran > World Heritage Site in Iran > Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran The Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran, in the north-west of the country, consists of three monastic ensembles of the Armenian Christian faith: St Thaddeus and St Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor. These edifices – the oldest of which, St Thaddeus, dates back […]