Rasht the creative city of Gastronomy in the world
Bahareh Bastamrokh M.A Tourism Planning
Guilan the country of Iran's Cuisine
Few people are found not to have tasted foods from the north of Iran. With its unique climate and abundant rainfalls, Gilan province brings various agricultural products. Such various products make various local cuisines with very unique tastes. Due to its vegetation diversity, and benefiting from seafood, and its historical background, Rasht city has its food diversity, too. Based on statistics, there are 17o local dishes in Rasht. In Rasht and of course, other cities of Gilan Province, a variety of vegetation is used to cuisine local dishes.
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Chahar Shanbe Soori
Among Iranians, the fire has a highly special value and position and most of the Iranian celebrations and rituals are closely bind fire. Among Aryans' festivals of fire, Sadeh Festival and Charshanbeh Suri are very popular. "Charshanbeh Suri is celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian solar year. Is celebrated with special rituals and ceremonies, and it is one of the glorious festivals full of cultural rituals.
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Feen Garden the most notorious of Persian gardens
Fin Garden The historical Fin Garden is one of the most beautiful and characteristic Persian gardens. One of the first kings enjoying and wondering curiously at its beauty was Omar ebne Leithe-Saffari who resorted to various fruitless tests in order to discover its apparently magical and invisible source of endless water. He ascended to the throne in 825 AD. The former site of the garden is now known as Bagh-e-Kohneh (old garden) because in the early 11" century Shah Abbas ordered the garden to be rebuilt beside the Fin fountain about 500m upstream of the old one. Fin Garden has an area of 23700 square meters with tall cedars known as Kashi (Zarbin) cedars as old as 500 years. It is irrigated by the Soleymanieh fountain.
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The Origins of Norouz
Among all societies, there are seasonal, ancient, and methodological rites, religious rituals, national and patriotic feast, family occasion, and so on. The first group of festivities, namely ancient and methodological ones, are inherited from the ancient times and surrounded by fables and myths. The passage of time, even though leaving its mark on many of the details, has hardly altered their essence or destroyed their content. Norouz falls in this group of ancient feasts and is celebrated as one of such festivities in ten countries which include Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan.
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Ali GholiAgha Hamam or Bath
One of the old bathhouses in Isfahan that was used up until a few years ago is Hammam-e Ali Gholi Agha (Ali Goli Agha Bathhouse). which was built around 310 years ago in the late Safavid era by a person of the same name(Ali Gholi Agha). Ali Gholi Agha was from courtiers and princes of Shah Suleiman and Shah Sultan Hussein courts in the 17th-century and he was the founder of a complex including a bazaar, mosque, and a bathhouse.
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Atiq Jame Mosque
Jame Mosque of Isfahan, also known as Atiq Mosque located in Ghiam Square, Allameh Majlesi Street, Isfahan, Iran. Actually. The mosque is located in the ancient texture of Isfahan city, on the west side of Hatef St, and at the end of Isfahan Grand Bazar. In general, as Naqsh-e Jahan Square and its surrounding buildings are a legacy from the Safavid era, Jameh Mosque and its surroundings show the life of before and during the Seljuk era. History of James Mosque of Isfahan Jameh Mosque or Atiq Mosque of Isfahan is one of the most prominent architectural monuments of Iran and the world, and since its different parts were built in different historical eras, the current collection, like a very big museum, represents the evolution and development of Persian architecture before and during the Islamic period.
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Julfa Quarter Isfahan
Julfa is one of the most alluring quarter in Isfahan where despite its eventful his tory left behind each alley and building, it is a quarter to get lost in the past and to be found immoderate, which spectacles two opposite faces of this quarter Julfa is named in remembrance of a region where Armenians had migrated, and in the Armenians language, it is called "New Julfa". Upon the arrival of Armenians to Isfahan, they simultaneously constructed their houses and places for worship the existence of 13 Cathedrals from some twenty constructed Cathedrals, out of which some date back more than 400 years ago, is the proof for this evident fact.
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Gilan Rural Heritage Museum
If you are going to make familiar with the deep architecture & culture of Guilan province this is the best one. A 45 hectares open-air museum included 9 original traditional Guilan houses that leed you to the 150 years ago. This museum shows you a variety of original traditional houses with different construction material and style which is mostly mud, wood, and rice stem. All the houses are dedicated to the museum and it took almost 5 years to move the basic structure in this place.
The museum is located at Saravan Forest Park, 18km south of Rasht.
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Gheisari Bazaar Isfahan
In terminology, a bazaar is a place for selling and purchasing goods and commodities. From the emergence of the bazaar, the communication corridors between urban space have become better and the main permanent bazaar got organized in every city along the main roads and city passages beginning from the city gate to the center of the town. In other words, the bazaar was a crowded place along which different trades and productive businesses were established. Besides that, bazaars were built in different manners based on geographical locations.
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Chal -e Nakhjir Cave
If you take a trip from Isfahan to Tehran or vice versa, on your way near Dilijan Lone of the wonderful phenomena of the world calls you toward itself. Between Naraq and Dilijan Town, right in a place where the exhausting summer heat of Heram Village, if you step inside a multi-million years old cave, Chal-Nakhjir Cave, even for some minutes, it is as if you step in another season. It is right, Chal-Nakhjiror Nakhcheer Cave is one of the wonders of creation that surprise every human being.
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Adventure Tour
Iran is one of the largest countries in the Middle East.
Its landscape is diverse, comprising desert, rivers, plateaus, valleys, jungles, and mountain including the Middle East’s highest peak, Mt Damavand (5167m).
Iran with this variety of natural wonders is the paradise of Eco-traveler.
You can climb mountains, rafting in the roaring rivers, stay at the villages, cook with locals and walk in different parts of Iran freely.
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Cultural Tours
Thousands years of brilliant historical records, rare historical monuments, more than 1/000/000 historical sites and attractions to discover, deep ancient civilizations, sides and impressive cultural aspects, while embracing one of the most unique nations in the world; are some of the main elements that formed the cultural and historical concept of the ancient territory of the Persians, known as IRAN.
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Iran has very different cultural characteristics as: social, historical, natural and...
These different characteristics in a wide plateau create different models of trip plans. You can prepare your favorite tour by combining several of these features or use our offered tours.
