Art & Culture
Museums
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Azerbaijan Museum
Azerbaijan Museum includes a rich and prolific collection of artifacts and works that have been discovered through archeological...
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Iran National Tea Museum
Iran National Tea Museum and the mausoleum of Kashef-ol Saltaneh, the founder of tea industry of Iran (tea...
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Bandar Abbas Museum of Water
Bandar Abbas Museum of Water is located in 22 Bahman Street of Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province. The building...
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The Stone Museum in Taq-e Bostan (Kermanshah)
The Stone Museum is placed next to the historical area of Taq-e Bostan. It includes over forty stone objects most of which related to Sassanid empire and also to Qajar. There are Sassanid capitals in the museum belonged to a palace which had never been constructed.
Handicrafts
The Fame & Myth
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Sheikh Safi-ad-din Is'haq Ardabili (Ardabil)
The ancestor of Safavid kings, Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili, was born in 650 AH in Ardabil. Being the 8th...
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Mir Nowruz
Mir Nowruz is known with his pen name Vazeh and titled as Rend-e Lorestan (Rogue of Lorestan), He...
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Vahshi Bafghi (Yazd)
Shams al-Din Mohammad Vahshi Bafghi is one of the poets of the second half of the 10th century AH....
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Khwārizmī (Khorasan)
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the famous mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and historian, was born in 185 AH. There is...
Dance & Local Games
Persian Foods
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Khoresh-e Qeimeh (Yellow Split Peas Stew)
Khoresh-e Qeimeh is another delicious Persian classic dish, made of lamb, tomatoes, yellow split peas, and dried lime....
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Chegdermeh
Chekdirme, also pronounced as Chegidermeh or Chekidermeh, is one of the most delicious and popular dishes among the Turkmen people
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Caviar
Caspian Sea caviar is the most aristocratic and expensive food in the world. Caviar is the roe of certain species of fish, which are called sturgeon. It is very time-consuming and difficult process to catch and harvest caviar.
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Zanjan\'s Raisin Cookie
Raisin cookie is considered one of the traditional and ancient pastries in Zanjan province. This pastry is among the very popular and delicious cookies. The primary ingredients for making raisin sweet pastry are flour, butter, egg, powdered sugar, raisins, and vanilla.
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Zanjan\'s Shasti cookies
One of the very delicious and beautifully colored traditional sweets of Zanjan is \"Shirini Shasti\". To prepare this tasty pastry, wheat flour, solid oil or natural butter, egg yolk, rice flour, powdered sugar, and cardamom powder are used. This pastry is incredibly simple and delicious.