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This website has travel and tourist information for Iran, and much more on Iranian history, customs, and culture.

Travelers to the region will find useful information on transportation, tours, shopping, embassies, currency converters, time zones, customs, computer resources, and hotels. Online visitors can explore what Iran has given the world in art, music, carpets, religion, poetry, food, film, books, mathematics, science, and chess. Individual web pages for poets such as Jalaluddin Rumi, Hafez, Attar, Omar Khayam, and others.

The site has a map of the Persian Empire accompanied by historical notes; Persian and Iranian calendars and holidays; and a glossary of terms. You can find Persian music and poetry CDs here and many books on poetry, cooking, history, and language.

If you're wondering which cities to visit, look here for descriptions and photographs of interesting places. Examples are Alexander the Great's prison, the tomb of the Biblical Esther, Omar Khayyam's tomb, prehistoric caves in northern Iran, the Tehran bazaar, the Yazd Zoroastrian Fire Temple, and many parks and gardens, palaces and mosques.