The Central Deserts (Isfahan & Yazd)2 places
- IsfahanThe jewel of old Persia, built around one of the largest public squares on earth and lined with tiled blue mosques, a…
- YazdA honey-coloured desert city of mud-brick lanes and rooftops bristling with windcatchers, ancient towers that funnel…
The South (Persepolis & the Gulf)2 places
- PersepolisThe ceremonial capital of the mighty Persian Empire, a terrace of colossal columns and stairways carved with…
- ShirazThe Persian city of poets, roses, and nightingales, where a mosque's stained-glass windows scatter the morning sun into…
The North (Tehran & the Caspian)1 place
- TehranIran's sprawling, mountain-backed capital, where the old shahs' mirror-tiled palaces and a dazzling vault of crown…
The West (the Zagros)1 place
- Chogha ZanbilA colossal mud-brick ziggurat rising from the plain of southwestern Iran, built by the little-known Elamite…