World Heritage Sites in Iran
29 entries in the World Heritage Sites in Iran compendium.
Akbarieh GardenA Qajar-era garden and former residence of local rulers in Iran, part of the Persian GardeAlamut CastleMountain fortress and Nizari Ismaili headquarters from 1090 to 1256.Ali QapuSafavid lofty palace and grand gate in Isfahan.AvromanMountainous region with ancient terraced villages and UNESCO cultural landscape.Bam, IranAncient citadel city in Iran, devastated by 2003 earthquake.Band-e KaisarRoman-built Sasanian dam bridge in Shushtar, Iran.Bazaar of ArakHistoric bazaar built with the 19th-century city of Sultan Abad.Bazaar of TabrizHistoric Silk Road market and largest covered bazaar globally.Behistun inscriptionA trilingual cuneiform inscription key to deciphering ancient scripts.BishapurSasanian capital founded by Shapur I after victory over Rome.Chogha ZanbilAncient Elamite ziggurat complex built by King Untash-Napirisha.Cultural Landscape of UramanatMountainous landscape reflecting millennia of Hawrami agropastoral culture.Lut DesertIran's largest desert after Dasht-e Kavir, with extreme surface temperatures.Dome of SoltaniyehIlkhanid mausoleum with one of the world's largest brick domes.Eram GardenHistoric Persian garden in Shiraz, Iran, dating to the 19th century.Fin GardenHistoric Persian garden, site of a Qajar-era assassination.Forests of IranIran's forests span five vegetation regions and face ongoing deforestation.Golestan PalaceFormer Qajar royal complex and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Tehran.Gonbad-e Qabus (tower)Cylindrical tomb tower built for Ziyarid ruler Qabus in 1006/7.Jameh Mosque of IsfahanA historic congregational mosque in Isfahan, Iran, built and modified over centuries.Khalvat-e Karim KhaniA historic retreat turned passageway and royal tomb site.Lambsar CastleLargest and most fortified Ismaili castle, now a UNESCO site.Mizan DamSasanian-era regulatory dam in Iran's Shushtar Hydraulic System.Monastery of Saint ThaddeusAncient Armenian monastery in Iran, a UNESCO World Heritage site.Mosaic Ayvan3rd-century Sasanian iwan with mosaic carpets and stucco decorations.Naqsh-e Jahan SquareSafavid-era square in Isfahan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.QanatAncient underground aqueducts delivering water by gravity in arid regions.Qanats of GhasabehAncient Achaemenid qanat network with 427 wells.Sa'd al-Saltaneh CaravanseraiA Qajar-era caravanserai in Qazvin, Iran.
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