Transcript Iran - PetershamNESB2010

Iran
Located in Asia
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It has five main cities:
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Tehran(the capital of Iran)
Esfahan
Shiraz
Mashhad
Tabriz
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Tehran
• Tehran is the capital of Iran that has lots of the
last kings palaces in it
• It has an ancient market place that is called
bazar
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Esfahan
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It has the most numbers monuments in Iran.
One of them is ali-ghapoo:
Ālī Qāpū (Turkish for Sublime Gate; Persian:
)‫عالی‌قاپو‬is a grand palace in Isfahan, Iran. It
is located on the western side of the
Naghsh-i Jahan Square opposite to Sheikh
lotf allah mosque, and had been originally
designed as a vast portal. It is forty-eight
meters high and there are seven floors, each
accessible by a difficult spiral staircase. In
the sixth floor music room, deep circular
niches are found in the walls, having not
only aesthetic value, but also acoustic.
The name Ālī Qāpū, Turkish for "high gate",
was given to this place as it was right at the
entrance to the Safavid palaces which
stretched from the Maidan Naqsh-i-Jahan to
the Chahār Bāgh Boulevard. The building,
another wonderful Safavid edifice, was built
by decree of Shah Abbas the Great in the
early seventeenth century. It was here that
the great monarch used to entertain noble
visitors, and foreign ambassadors.
It has masterpieces of tiles
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Shiraz
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Persepolis - its ancient name was Parsa to ancient Persians, its modern name is Takht-e Jamshid, (Persian:
Throne of Jamshid), to Iranians it was the capital of the Achaemenid kings of Iran (Persia). Persepolis is
located about 50 kms northeast of Shiraz in the province of Fars in southwestern Iran. It was set on fire by
Alexander upon his defeat of Darius III. The Achaeminid Empire was large and important : it covered Iran,
Irak, Turkey, Armenia, Macedonia (FYROM), a part of Syria,Israël and Egypt. In the North : Afghanistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan... 24 different nationalities.
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Qavam House (also widely called "Narenjestan e Ghavam") is a traditional and historical house in Shiraz, Iran.
It was built in the mid to late 1800s by Mirza Ibrahim Khan. The Qavam family were merchants originally from Qazvin. But
they soon became active in the government during the Zand dynasty, followed by the Qajar and Pahlavi dynasty as well.
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The Qavam "Naranjestan" preserves the elegance and refinement enjoyed by the upper class families during the nineteenth
century.
Masjede vakil
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tabriz
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Municipal House of Tabriz is the first and the oldest municipal in Iran, which has been built in 1939 by German
engineers. If you look above, it looks like a flying eagle. The area is 9600 m2, and the cost was something
around $255 at the time.
Tabriz, Blue Mosque :
The Blue Mosque (Persian: ‌‫مسجد‌کبود‬Masjed-e Kabud, Azerbaijani: )‌‫گؤی‌مسجید‬is a famous historic mosque in
Tabriz, Iran. The mosque and some other public buildings were constructed in 1465 upon the order of Jahan
Shah, the ruler of Kara Koyunlu.
The mosque was severely damaged in an earthquake in 1779, leaving only the entrance iwan. Reconstruction
began in 1973 by the late Reza Memaran Benam under the supervision of Iranian Ministry of Culture. However,
the tiling is still incompelete
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Mashhad
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Ferdosi(poet)’s tomb
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This is the Shrine of Imam REZA ... the shi^it's 8th IMAM ... the
building is the largest shrine and one the most beautiful Gothic
Style Plaza in the world ... every year more than 6 million people
comes here to pilgrimage from outside of iran and local iranians.
the dome of this shrine is Full GOLD Blocks ... this building build
in 8th Century! about 1224 years ago ... it wasn't this big in that
time but in each era of Persian History, Some parts Added to the
main core ... and the core is the oldest part of the shrine ...
whenever you are getting far from the core ... the era will change
... and it's like you are in a history book are a time machine.
some of the most important history events happend here ...
people make the special lighting and decorations for the new
year's holidays
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Delicious food from iran
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Kabab koobide
Jooje kabab
Kabab barg
Ghormesabzi
Morasa polo
kashke bademjan
Zereshk polo
Koofte
Khoreshte gheime
Khoreshte bademjan
Sabzipolo ba mahi
Fesenjan
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