Sights

West Azarbaijan Hasanlu In the south of Lake Orumiye, you can visit the archaelogical site of Hasanlu which was an important iron Age settlement. In the 9th century BC, the area in the south of Lake Orumiye was known as Mannai. The remains of heavy citadel with great walls of great thickness and height as high as 9 meters (30 feet) has been arttributed to the Manneans. At Hasanlu, the town and temple were inside the citadel protected by these long walls. Surrounded by powerful neighbors(Assyrians, Urartians, and Medes), the skeleton of people who died here violenlty indicates that the town was destroyed by Urartians in the ninth century BC in spite of these protective walls. Well-known Hasanlu gold cup was recovered here during excavations in addition to other gold and silver objects. Hasanlu gold cup is now kept in the Archaeological Museum of Tehran. The Archaeological site of Hasanlu provides information on the early development of architecture in Iran. Old door in West Azarbaijan