TEHRAN – Iran tourism body has registered over half a million visits to museums at Tehran’s Sa’dabad Cultural-Historical Complex during the New Year (Noruz) holidays (March 21-April 5).

Some 122 thousand people toured the complex during the period, making over 510,000 visits to its sixteen museums and palace museums, IRNA reported.

Mellat Palace Museum, the museum of royal vehicles, the Green Palace, and a museum dedicated to majestic clothing received topmost visitors during the period, the report said.

Sprawled on about 110 hectares of a mountainside parkland, the Sa’dabad complex was once a royal summer residence during Qajar era (1789–1925) and its subsequent Pahlavi epoch (1925–1979).

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