Isfahan's Natural Heritage: Gardens

Hafez and the Seljuk and Safavid Gardens

Even Hafez Shirazi, the renowned Iranian poet, has mentioned Karan Garden in his poems: “Although hundreds of rivers flow from my eyes constantly / I remember the Zendeh-Roud and Karan Garden with delight”

Isfahan's Heritage: Shah-Dej Castle

The Honourable Lady

The lady, clad in the finest and most magnificent clothes and jewellery, threw herself down from the top of the castle in order not to be captured by the besiegers!

Isfahan's Heritage: Dar ul-Batikh

The Dagger that Hit the Heart of an Empire!

During the reign of the Seljuks, circa one thousand years ago, Isfahan was the capital of a great empire, which spread from Transoxiana to the Mediterranean banks.