Location: Tehran Province, 415 kms north of Isfahan

Carpet Museum 

Coppersmith Bazzar 

Gateway to Iran

The Azadi square Monument, built in 1971, has become the gateway to Iran’s capital city Tehran. Although the Monument may have become to symbolize Tehran in recent years, the Alborz Range to the north of the city, and its majestic peak, the Mount Damavand, being the highest in Iran with a height of 18,550 feet, and visible from Tehran on a clear day, has long been associated with Tehran.

Compared to Iran’s other capitals, Tehran is not considered an old city . Little is Known about Tehran before 1220 A.D. when it along with Rey or Rhagae, the ancient capital of East Media, was razed to ground by the Mongol invaders.

Tehran remained relatively unimportant until the end of the 18th century when it was made the capital by Agha Mohammad Khan, the founder of the Qajar Dynasty, who was crowned here in 1795.

It was expanded by his successor Fath-Ali Shah who built the Golestan palace. Tehran was Located within the mud walls of Arg or citadel and had many gates, the last of which still remains today with the decorative Gate of Bagh-e-Melli in the administrative section of the capital.

Today, Tehran is a modern metropolis, a magnet for tourists, and hub of a great culture with its numerous museums, including the superb Archaeological Museum, with its prehistoric, historic and Islamic sections, the Abguineh Glass and the Reza Abbasi Calligraphy museums, and also the several museums housed on the sa’adabad palace grounds, plus the state jewels of Iran which holds one of the most fabulous collections of treasures in the world.

The Iranian still identifies with the bazaar as a place that is traditional, vital and truly Persian, and Tehran boasts one of the richest and longest bazaars in Iran with six miles of covered passage. 

Golestan Palace

Bastan Museum

Ferdosi Square