TEHRAN

We begin the journey with a visit to the Iranian capital Tehran: the most lively and so-called effervescent Iranian city. The Iranian megalopolis with more than 8 million inhabitants demonstrates its refinement in a chaotic atmosphere like all major cities in the world. Tehran, however, is a fundamental page in modern history as it offers travelers its extraordinary museums such as the Jewelery Museum which exhibits the most important collection in the world. The artistic progress, the architectural interventions and the rebirth of the many cafes to the traditional Persian style, has made Tehran, in recent years, a fascinating labyrinth so as to surprise the traveler in every urban corner.

The visits of Tehran:

The National Archaeological Museum of Iran traces history, art and culture through archaeological finds ranging from the sixth millennium BC to the Islamic period, the seventh century AD. At the Tehran Museum there is a splendid collection of ceramics, terracotta and bronzes and in addition, every semester, there is a temporary exhibition of objects of high archaeological value, loaned by other museums such as that of Venice, Berlin and etc. .

Golestan Palace is located near the Grand Bazaar and is a remarkable complex that has its roots in the 16th century, when Tehran slowly transformed itself from a village to a real city. Golestan means “rose garden” because it is a typical example of the wonderful Persian Gardens. Modern Iranian history owes so much to the complex where Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowned himself and proclaimed himself the successor of Cyrus the Great. Then we visit the entrance to the Grand Bazaar of Tehran where “cooked and raw” are sold and, as they say in Persian, “hen’s milk and the human soul” are also sold.

The National Jewelery Museum (open only from Saturday to Tuesday) is located in a huge safe with a 25 cm thick door, and is housed in the underground coffers of the Central Bank of Iran. The museum houses the crown jewels, the gem-encrusted globe, a riot of precious stones, diadems, crowns of the Pahlavi family and the largest existing pink diamond in the world also called Darya-e Nour (Sea of ​​Light) of 182 carats. The diamond is a symbol of the victory that Nadir, Shah in 1739, brought to Iran after his successful campaign in India.

An alternative to the Jewelery Museum is the Carpet Museum.

A pleasant walk on the NATURAL BRIDGE; a modern work of the Iranian capital in Tehran. The Bridge of Nature is a pedestrian crossing, built over one of Tehran’s main highways and connects the two green hills of the city. The bridge was designed by a 26-year-old Iranian woman named “Leila Araghian”. The bridge, since its opening in 2014, has won many international awards. Leila herself reported that she designed it with the purpose of bringing people together.

Dinner in typical restaurants in the north of Tehran at the foot of the Darband peak. Transfer to the hotel, overnight.

KASHAN

When we talk about the house, in Kashan it always represents an exemplary model to get to know the local culture better. Because Kashan in addition to having the millenary hill displays its nineteenth-century villas, also called bioclimatic houses. It should be known that Kashan enjoys a desert climate and a remarkably hot summer period. The invention of the inhabitants of the city gives birth to a house with two or three different levels where you can simply cool down or heat a room or a living room depending on the season in which you are. But the importance of the city is not just the variety of houses that exist. Kashan is rather known for the precious production of Rose of Persia water. In fact, the trip to Iran now absorbs its original scent, which is the scent of rose petals that is grown on the hills of central Iran. This beautiful city built in a verdant oasis still houses some of the most beautiful traditional houses in the region, such as the splendid home of the wealthy merchant of the Tabatabaei family. During the visit it is possible to contemplate the details of a patriarchal house, where the head of the “Pedar” family tends to gather his sons and have them in the same villa as a matter of availability and family economic management. Furthermore, the nineteenth-century mansion highlights two factors of Islamic architecture: introversion and extroversion. Before leaving for Qom you will visit the Sultan’s Hammam and the Agha Bozorg Mosque and Madrasa.

Departure for the holy city of Iran: Qom. The latter is one of the holy cities of Iran, dominated by the imposing sanctuary dedicated to Hazrate Masumeh; Fatima the Innocent was the daughter of the seventh Imam Musa ibn Ja’far and sister of Ali ibn Musa al-Reza, eighth Imam of the Shiites and descendant of the prophet. Hazrate Masumah was born in 789 AD. in the city of Medina; when in 816 she was going to Marv to visit her brother, she would have fallen ill (or injured during a sacking of the caravan) when the caravan carrying her was arriving in Saveh, she was transported to Qom where she died in 27 years old. Every year thousands of Shiites from the Middle East travel to Iran dedicating themselves to the rituals of pilgrimage to the shrines of their saints. In the complex of the Hazrate Masumeh Sanctuary it is possible to reach the entrance door of the burial chamber, where men and women separately touch the tomb

Transfer to Tehran airport. Dinner and overnight at the IBIS Hotel.

ARDESTAN-MEYBOD – NAEIN

After having breakfast, depart for Isfahan. Starting from Yazd to reach the ancient capital of the Safavids or Isfahan, you have to cross two characteristic cities with the typical architecture of the desert areas: Naein and Meybod.

In Meybod we begin the discovery of the extraordinary clay architecture of the East of Iran where we visit a caravanserai, a glacier. The term of the caravanserai is composed of kārwān “caravan of camels” and sarāy “building” which indicates a building or group of buildings intended – in the East – to accommodate travelers and merchandise, both as a place to stop and stop on commercial roads and as a point of arrival or storage of goods near or within cities. The caravanserai in turn was divided into two different social categories: real and popular.

There is a complex that includes a Caravanserai and its Ice House. This construction in the shape of a trullo was mainly used for storing ice during the summer. Ice production took place during the winter in the external trays in front of the icebox. With its conical shape, it protected the internal basin which contained ice and protected it from the sun. The diameter of the internal tank – corresponds to the level of the entrance door – also reaches 13 meters and slowly as it goes down, almost 6 meters, the diameter decreases. Therefore, the interior height of the icebox from the lowest part to the highest point of the dome was 21 meters.

In Naein instead you can visit a splendid mosque with an octagonal minaret, the beautiful prayer niche and the Kariz or Qanat, an interesting Mehrab and the charming old Bazaar, now in disuse.

At the end of the day we arrive in Isfahan, one of the most beautiful cities in Iran.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

YAZD

Breakfast. Full day dedicated to visiting the city, one of the most interesting in Iran and an ancient Zoroastrian center.

The Atash-Kadeh – the Fire Temple. It is wrong to think that Zoroastrians worship fire. Before going to a Fire Temple, where the sacred fire still burns, Fire must be recognized as the sacred element because, according to this philosophy, it is the Source of Purity and Light. This is the true direction in which the Zoroastrians practice their worship. Here in Yazd in the Fire Temple this sacred flame has been burning for more than 15 centuries and has never been extinguished. The priestly duty or that of the Temple Wizard is to empty the ashes and provide the wood to keep the flame burning, so that practitioners can turn to it as it is considered a source of good. the two tallest minarets in Iran measure 48 meters.

This mosque is not only famous for the height of the minarets, but also for the splendid main portal, decorated with inlaid majolica tiles; it is in fact an artistic masterpiece that offers one of the most fascinating works of the trip to Iran. To observe the details of the cut of the majolica tiles, just approach the main facade.

Historic center and old Fahadan district. Yazd owes its fame above all to the architecture of the old city, built entirely with unfired bricks; the most important monuments of the historic center, however, are the so-called “wind towers” ​​which dominate the roofs and which can be seen from afar. For this reason Yazd has been called the “city of wind towers”.

These towers, called badgir (literally “wind catchers”) are used to provide the necessary ventilation, since the houses do not have many windows to the outside. The badgir during the day removes the hot air from the inside and, during the night, brings fresh air from the outside to the inside of the building. The system uses two environmental conditions: the difference in air pressure and the difference in temperature.

The Towers of Silence. Here everything stops, in this place there is in fact a cemetery used until about 70 years ago and it is very different from the common ones because it is a sacred place for the Zoroastrians. In this particular holy field the dead were brought to the top of the tower by special employees the “Salar”, and were the only ones who could touch the dead. The corpses were left inside circular buildings and there the bodies, thanks to atmospheric agents and vultures, became bones and were subsequently moved to the well in the center of the tower, where they would find perpetual rest. The four elements of nature: air, water, fire and earth are considered sacred by the Zoroastrians. The earth could not be contaminated with human remains so there was no provision for the burial of the bodies and for the same reason neither was cremation. These places were called: Towers of Silence. And here the silence is real, deafening, softened only by the sound of the wind.

The Water Museum; In Iran, especially in desert areas such as Yazd, there was an underground irrigation system that supplied the oases with fresh water from the aquifers, through a system of underground channels up to twenty kilometers long, with inspection wells called “mil”, artificially dug along the canal route. These vertical wells guaranteed access to the underground tunnel, both for the withdrawal of water and to facilitate the necessary maintenance works. The canals, known in Persian as Kariz or Qanat, were dug by exploiting the natural inclination of the land, so that they conveyed the waters of the aquifers towards the cultivation land or a town. Even in the long run, the canals suffered minimal loss of water by evaporation and did not contaminate drinking water. Through the Water Museum you have the opportunity to know the details of this millenary work of Iran.

ABARKUH – PASARGADE

Breakfast. Departure for Shiraz and before leaving Yazd, we visit

The Towers of Silence. Here everything stops, in this place there is in fact a cemetery used until about 70 years ago and it is very different from the common ones because it is a sacred place for the Zoroastrians. In this particular holy field the dead were brought to the top of the tower by special employees, the “Salar”, and were the only ones who could touch the dead. The corpses were left inside circular buildings and there the bodies, thanks to atmospheric agents and vultures, became bones and were subsequently moved to the well in the center of the tower, where they would find perpetual rest. The four elements of nature: air, water, fire and earth are considered sacred by the Zoroastrians. The earth could not be contaminated with human remains so there was no provision for the burial of the bodies and for the same reason neither was cremation. These places were called: Towers of Silence. And here the silence is real, deafening, softened only by the sound of the wind.

Halfway, before arriving in Shiraz, we visit the town of Abarkoh: a particular urban example, where the construction of the houses involved the use of raw earth (bio-architecture) which acted as insulation both during the summer and winter. The same system was applied to the construction of an ancient ice house that supplied and produced ice in the hottest months of the year. In Abarkuh you can admire one of the oldest cypresses in the world which, according to some sources, will be approximately 4000 years old.

The journey continues with a visit to the archaeological site of Passargade, the city was the first capital of the Persian Empire founded in 546 BC. by Cyrus the Great during his reign who died in the summer of 530 BC. In Pasargade was born the real Pardis or Paradise the “Persian Garden”. Among the monuments and ruins at the site are three royal palaces and a magnificent bas-relief: the Private Palace of Cyrus the Great, the Palazzo delle Udienze and the Tomb of Cyrus the Great. Pasargade was once surrounded by two rivers which brought water to the city, through a peculiar irrigation canal that sang and supplied water, passing through the middle of the Persian Garden.

Arrival in Shiraz. Dinner in a restaurant and overnight at the hotel.

PERSEPOLIS

A cultured itinerary must enrich the traveller’s knowledge, and Pasargade, which is the first capital of politics and diplomacy of Ancient Persia, is able to do so and in addition can demonstrate the sagacity of its brilliant general, known as Cyrus the Great. He, the Father of all Median and Persian soldiers, celebrated the conquest of Babylon with a document defined as the foundation of the charter of human rights: “The Cylinder of Cyrus”, which is a clay document, in which it was recorded the liberation of the exiles, including Jews. The archaeological site of Ancient Persia, Pasargade, among its ruins, highlights the simple square-plan Tomb of Cyrus built with stone blocks that at first sight resembles a Mesopotamian ziggurat. Cyrus the Great, with the construction of his tomb, wanted to respect his origins, that is the ancient Iranian civilizations and in addition he also managed to surprise Alexander the Great, centuries after his death. It is said, in fact, that in the inner chamber Cyrus the Great wrote a message to any conquerors including Alexander the Great who, after hearing the words of Cyrus the Great, would have started to cry:

“O man

Whoever you are,

and whenever you come,

Since I know that you will come,

I am Ciro

I conquered a world empire for the Persians.

Don’t envy me

for that little land that covers my body! “

On the way, we visit the archaeological site of Pasargade. The city was the first capital of the Persian Empire founded in 546 BC. by Cyrus the Great during his reign who died in the summer of 530 BC. In Pasargade was born the real Pardis or Paradise the “Persian Garden”. Among the monuments and ruins at the site are three royal palaces and a magnificent bas-relief: the Private Palace of Cyrus the Great, the Palazzo delle Udienze and the Tomb of Cyrus the Great. Pasargadae was once surrounded by two rivers which brought water to the city, through a peculiar irrigation canal that sang and supplied water, passing through the middle of the Persian Garden.

Halfway before arriving in Yazd we will pay a visit to the town of Abarkoh: a particular urban example where the construction of the houses involved the use of raw earth (bio-architecture) which acted as insulation during the summer and winter. The same system was applied for the construction of an ancient icebox that provided ice in the hottest months of the year. In Abarkuh we visit one of the oldest cypresses in the world Sarve Abarkuh which according to some sources will be approximately 4000 years old.

NAQSHE ROSTAM

t of the fourteenth century AD, the mentor of Sufi. The meekness of Persian philosophy was born between the lines of Hafez’s poems. What makes the poet immortal is the transversality of the meaning of his poetry which highlights the fruit of his “Sufi” thought to all readers. If Shiraz is the homeland of mystical poetry it owes it to its poets. The surprise of the visit to the mausoleum consists in the fact that Hafez’s word is linked to Bacchus and Venus. So reading Hafez while walking in his heavenly garden serves to understand the contradiction that exists between a sweet Iranian stilnovista with modernity that has taken place: perhaps it might seem like a subversive poem!

After lunch we leave for a visit to the great archaeological sites, of the Achaemenids IV century BC, and of the Sassanids III century AD, we visit the archaeological site of Naghsh-e-Rostam, it is a necropolis. A very suggestive place, it still retains the rock tombs of the great Achaemenid kings. It is not at all an exaggeration to say that the site is the richest in all of Iran because here there are all the historical evidences: a magnificent bas-relief of the Elamites, 1300 BC, the particular shapes of the royal tombs and ancient Persian scriptures of the 400. BC, the very important documents of the Sassanids and the writing of the Middle Persian of 300 AD In a single archaeological site, very suggestive, one can contemplate a Persia at the time of Elam up to the defeat of Valerian the Roman general who fought against Shapur.

The journey continues with a visit to Persepolis, it is the sacred city founded by Darius in 524 BC, to celebrate the feast of Nowruz (new day) or the Persian New Year on 21 March. Persepolis was conquered and burned by Alexander the Great as revenge for the pillage that Xerxes made during the Persian wars. The excursion to Persepolis delves into the details of a majestic city where Darius and Xerxes brought the best craftsmen, paid and insured by royal law, to build it. Here there is not only an architectural study but with the marvelous bas-reliefs of the Apadana Palace you can leaf through an ancient anthropological book. Among the ruins you can visit its imposing palaces that never cease to impress travelers: the Palazzo Cento Colonne where the King received the generals, the Sala delle Adienze called Palazzo Apadana with a square plan and six rows of columns, up to 19 meters. The access stairways depict processions of Satrap and the imperial guards known as the Immortal Soldiers.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

ISFAHAN

“Die Blume der tausend und einer Nacht” ist das i-Tüpfelchen und wir finden es in Isfahan. Die Stadt ist ein historisches Bild, das die Reise in den Iran abschließt. Es ist kein Zufall, dass Isfahan Pasolinis Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zog, um einige Szenen seines Films auf dem Naghsh-e Jahan-Platz zu drehen. Und hier ist ein persisches Sprichwort, das sagt: Isfahan ist die halbe Welt. Tatsächlich wurde die Blüte der islamischen Architektur hier auf dem Naghsh-e Jahan-Platz geboren, wo die türkisblaue Farbe die Moscheen dominiert und der Himmel über dem Platz, dem alten Polofeld, im Laufe der Zeit zum Sitz der wertvollsten geworden ist künstlerische Workshops. Das Zeitalter der Safawiden entspricht dem dritten persischen Reich, das die iranische Macht auf den Thron zurückbrachte und ein neues Persien auf der Grundlage politischer, religiöser und militärischer Beziehungen errichtete. Die Anwesenheit der Vank-Kathedrale, die seit 1605 von der Gemeinschaft armenischer Christen verwaltet wird, macht sie zu einem eindrucksvollen Beispiel. Die Macht der Safawiden wird jedoch in der Kunst bewundert, und so wurde in Isfahan eine Phase der “Renaissance” der persischen Zivilisation, Kultur und Kunst geboren. Die islamische Renaissance im Iran sieht den künstlerischen Blitz unter der Herrschaft von Shah Abbas I. (1587-1629).

In Isfahan wird in wenigen Sekunden der Traum eines jeden Reisenden aus dem Nahen Osten wahr: der Iran und sein Renaissance-Charme; Denken Sie nur an die Fresken des Palazzo Quaranta Colonne oder an die prächtige Decke des Musikraums des Palazzo Ali Qapu.

Frühstück. Der ganze Tag ist dem Besuch der Stadt gewidmet, die durch die Straßen zwischen dem Naghshe Jahan-Platz und den Künstlergeschäften geht.

Besuche des Tages

Royal Square oder Naghsh-e Jahan, im persischen Stadtzentrum (das Bild der Welt), neu gestaltet von Shah Abbas I. Auf dem großen zentralen Platz Naghsh-e Jahan (512 x 163 Meter) befinden sich zwei Reihen von Bögen Im unteren Teil befinden sich alle Künstlerläden, in denen die meisten iranischen Kunsthandwerke wie Miniaturen, Türkis und Stoffe hergestellt und verkauft werden. Auf dem Naghshe Jahan Square befand sich eine Elite von Kaufleuten, die auf der Suche nach künstlerischer Raffinesse waren. Noch auf dem Platz befinden sich die Stangen, mit denen das vor 400 Jahren erbaute Polofeld abgegrenzt wurde.

Die anmutige „Moschee der Königin oder des Scheichs Lotfollah“ ist ein majestätisches Meisterwerk der Safavidenzeit, das sich in einem harmonischen Raum befindet und für seine künstlerische Opulenz völlig erkennbar ist. Shah Abbas Ich wählte den talentierten iranischen Architekten Ali Akbar Isfahani als Leiter des Baus der Moschee, dessen Bau fast 17 Jahre dauerte. Die Moschee wäre auf Geheiß des Schahs seinem Schwiegervater gewidmet gewesen, dem libanesischen Theologen, der später Anspruch auf eine Koranschule in Isfahan hatte. Das Meisterwerk des Architekten Isfahani hat ein einzigartiges Moscheenmodell in die Praxis umgesetzt, das es noch nie gegeben hat. Tatsächlich hat die Moschee weder Minarette noch einen Innenhof oder ein Waschbad. Die erstaunliche äußere und innere Dekoration, das Lichtspiel zum Mihrab, die Kalligraphie-Pracht mit dem Lapislazuli-Hintergrund und schließlich die Komplexität und Schönheit der Blumenmotive unter der Kuppel haben die Sheikh Lotfollah-Moschee in Isfahan zu einer der schönsten gemacht in Iran.

die königliche Moschee; nämlich die Moschee des Imams heute. Das Genie des Architekten Isfahani ist freiwillig und unfreiwillig außerhalb des Innenraums der Moschee zu sehen. Wenn Sie Ihren Besuch in der Moschee abgeschlossen haben, sehen Sie mitten auf dem Naghsh-e Jahan-Platz eine ungewöhnliche Fülle von Minaretten und einen listigen und “absichtlichen” Umweg von Isfahani, um sich ästhetisch an den Platz anzupassen. Die Imam-Moschee ist ein unverwechselbares Meisterwerk, bei dem jede Dekoration und jedes Partikel ihre Bedeutung in der geometrischen Symmetrie findet. Hier wurde der Innenhof mit einem Waschbecken geschmückt, um das sich vier imposante Iwans befinden, die die Majestät der Verwendung blauer Farben im islamischen heiligen Raum darstellen. Neben der dekorativen Schönheit ist die zweischichtige Kuppel – 36,3 m. Innenhöhe und 51 m. Das äußere – des südlichen Iwan, ein ausgezeichnetes System wurde angewendet, um den Klang während der Rufe des Rituals zu verstärken. Es wird empfohlen, mit einem samtigen Schritt zu gehen, um das Rumpeln zu hören.

Der Ali Qapu Pavillon ist der Palast, in dem der Herrscher seine Gäste empfing. Ali Qapu hat sechs Stockwerke mit einer Tür, die den Platz mit dem Chehel Sotun Palast verband. Wenn Sie auf dem Platz sind, bemerken Sie sofort die schöne Terrasse mit ihren 18 Säulen, von der aus Sie einen herrlichen Panoramablick auf den Naghsh-e Jahan-Platz genießen können. Das Meisterwerk des Palastes besteht aus den eingebauten Details wie der Badewanne im fünften Stock, der eingelegten Holzdecke und der Art der Tafel, die an den Wänden des Gebäudes angebracht ist und eine orientalische Traumwelt hervorhebt. Im Rücken des Ali-Qapu-Palastes schlängelt sich schließlich eine Wendeltreppe, die zum bezaubernden Musikzimmer führt, das mit Stuckarbeiten verziert ist, die Vasen und ähnliche Themen darstellen und zusammen zur Verbesserung der Raumakustik beitragen.

Der Palast der vierzig Säulen oder Chehel Sotun ist der Pavillon, in dem der König das Publikum gewährte. Ein paar Schritte von der Piazza entfernt erstrahlt im Innenhof des Chehel Sotun ein weiterer luxuriöser persischer Garten, der eine der Freuden der safawidischen Renaissance umfasst: Der Pavillon pulsiert immer noch im Herzen des persischen Gartens, als hätte der Luxus des wirklichen Lebens noch nie stattgefunden beendet. Hier sind die Fresken aufgereiht, weil es sehr wenig ist, sie als raffiniert und elegant zu definieren. Die Gemälde und die Geschichten, die sie erzählen, zu bewundern bedeutet, eine kulturelle und anthropologische Tür zu öffnen, um sich für einen Moment mit den wichtigsten Charakteren der Geschichte des Nahen Ostens von 1600 bis 1700 zu identifizieren.

Abendessen in einem Restaurant und Übernachtung im Hotel.

ISFAHAN

Die Multiethnizität des Iran ist ein relevanter Faktor für das heutige Verständnis des Iran. Während einige Nomaden seit mehreren Jahrhunderten auf dem iranischen Plateau lebten und leben, kamen andere ethnische Gruppen wie Turkmenen oder Gläubige anderer Religionen wie Christen aus geopolitischen Gründen in den Iran und erkannten, dass dieser Staat andere ethnische Gruppen und Religionen toleriert. Dies war schon immer ein Mehrwert, den eine tausendjährige Kultur bietet. Denken Sie in diesem Fall nur an die Armenier, die auf direkten Befehl von Shah Abbas I in den Iran ziehen mussten. Tatsächlich haben die Armenier aus dem armenischen Jolfa-Gebiet in den 1920er Jahren ihre Heimat für immer verlassen. verwüstet durch einen anhaltenden Konflikt zwischen den Osmanen und Safaviden und kam nach Isfahan, um eine neue sozio-religiöse Phase zu beginnen und sowohl ihre Kirchen als auch das Hauptquartier ihres sogenannten armenischen Kalifats zu bauen. Das Viertel Jolfa in Isfahan begrüßte die Armenier, und Shah Abbas I. erlaubte ihnen in einem von ihm unterzeichneten Manuskript, neue kommerzielle und religiöse Beziehungen aufzubauen, und gewährte ihnen eine gewisse Freiheit, die vom Safavid Court voll unterstützt wurde. Die Armenier haben eine wichtige Handelsroute im Herzen der Hauptstadt der Safaviden “Isfahan” eröffnet. Darüber hinaus konzentriert sich das Hauptquartier des armenischen Kalifats in erster Linie auf die Veröffentlichung neuer religiöser Texte unter Verwendung von Gutenbergs Erfindung im Iran. Alles in allem ist Isfahan eine historische Zusammenfassung der Ereignisse der Armenier, die immer noch im Stadtteil Jolfa leben, wo die architektonische Schönheit und die Details der Fresken der Vank-Kathedrale jeden Reisenden überraschen.

Die Kathedrale von Vank und ihr Museum erzählen die Geschichte der Diaspora des armenischen Volkes, das seit mehr als 300 Jahren außerhalb seines Mutterlandes lebt. Der Iran wusste nicht nur, wie er seine Gäste willkommen heißen sollte, sondern schützte sie vor allem vor den schweren Konflikten, die das gesellschaftliche Leben in der armenischen Nachbarschaft von Isfahan bedrohten. Heute haben die Armenier im Hof ​​der Vank-Kathedrale mit großer Sorgfalt und Vorsicht ein neues ethnologisches Museum eröffnet, in dem es möglich ist, dank der Informationen in der Vank in die wahre Kultur eines Landes einzutauchen Galerien dieser historischen Vitrine des armenischen Volkes. Aber die Geschichte endet nicht dort, weil die Vank-Kathedrale – es ist nicht die einzige Kirche in Isfahan – die armenische Gemeinde einlädt, religiöse Feiertage zu feiern und vor allem an den Völkermord zu erinnern. Tatsächlich versammeln sich jedes Jahr am 24. April Armenier in der Vank-Kathedrale, um an die Deportation und Eliminierung ihrer etwa 1,5 Millionen Toten zu erinnern. Sobald Sie den eleganten Innenhof der Vank-Kathedrale betreten und die Stufen des Haupteingangs hinuntergehen, werden Sie eines der wichtigsten Denkmäler des armenischen Volkes bemerken, das den während der großen Tragödie deportierten Menschen gewidmet ist.

Das Ende des Moscheebesuchs am Freitag führt uns nun zu einer unerwarteten Entdeckung inmitten des Menschenverkehrs. Hier in Isfahan, wenn ein Besuch endet, beginnt ein anderer wieder und der Reisende bereitet sich unbewusst darauf vor, den Erzählungen der Stadt zuzuhören, als würde Shahrazad sie direkt aus “Tausendundeiner Nacht” lesen. Und hier ist der beliebte Basar unmittelbar nach dem Verlassen des Haupteingangs der Moschee. Für diejenigen, die es lieben, sich in den beliebten Gassen zu verirren, sollten Sie wissen, dass die Zeit gekommen ist, sich von den Gebühren zu befreien, indem Sie einen Spaziergang durch die Geschäfte und Parfums machen. Auf diese Weise erreichen Sie den Naghshe Jahan Square in 40 Minuten. Bevor man nach rechts abbiegt und den überdachten Korridoren des Basars folgt, kann man die Neugier des Reisenden befriedigen, indem man direkt in ein anderes historisches Viertel von Isfahan geht, um alle Synagogen der jüdischen Gemeinde von Isfahan zu besuchen, wo die Juden ihre Anbetung praktizieren. Es ist die Rede von einer Multiethnizität im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes, die in anderen Teilen der Welt nicht leicht zu finden ist.Der Besuch der Brücken über den Fluss Zayandeh-Rud, die Sio Se Pol-Brücke (der 33 Bögen) und die Khaju-Brücke (Pol-e-Kaju).

Freizeit. Abendessen in einem Restaurant und Übernachtung im Hotel.

NATANZ – ABYANEH

Along the way we visit the town of Natanz, to admire the Friday Mosque, Masged Jamè, and the Abdol-Samad Mausoleum.

We continue the journey along the slopes of Mount Karkas “vulture” and here we enter a wonderful stage, given by a valley where we can admire one of the oldest traditional villages of Iran “Abyaneh”, at an altitude of 2200 meters above the level of the sea. The village, which finds its origins in the Achaemenid age of 400 BC, is surrounded by the ruins of a Sassanid fortress from 300 AD. and it is also famous both for the red ocher color of the houses and for the rose drawn on the long scarf worn by the women of the village. (the feasibility of the visit depends on the season and the snow).

In Kashan there is the Bagh-e Fin, one of the most famous Persian gardens that can be visited during the trip to Iran. The Fin garden was designed by Shah Abbas I (1557-1629), as an earthly vision of Paradise. The concept of the Persian Garden takes its soul only when the traveler listens to the melody that springs from the lapping of the water, along the path of the various canals. Even today, the central water basin called the camel’s throat has the duty to distribute the water in all the lateral channels, using the simple theory of communicating vessels. In 1600 the Persian Fin Garden in Iran became important because Shah Abbas I chose it as the ideal place for the royal coronation when he ascended the throne. But two centuries later, the kings of the Qajar also chose the Persian Fin Garden in Kashan as the operational headquarters of the Court. In the midst of the greenery of the Fin, only the cypresses and plane trees can tell us about the symmetry and elegance of the Persian Garden plan. On the other hand there are still the magnificent frescoes in the building built by the kings of the Qajar which date back to the 70s of the 1800s, and finally to learn the secrets of the Fin Garden you have to enter the Hammam complex, famous for the story of the assassin or attempt suicide of Amir Kabir, the reformist of the Qajar administration.

Dinner in a restaurant and overnight in a traditional hotel.

TEHRAN – ITALY

Transfer to “Imam Khomeini” international airport for the Tehran – Italy flight.