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2021-01-02 21:30
Landscape project to alter Bam Citadel, surroundings
TEHRAN – A landscape project will soon commence on the UNESCO-registered Bam Citadel and its surroundings in southeast Iran.
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2020-11-29 22:16
Intl. webinar resonates Kerman’s handicrafts, tourism attractions
TEHRAN – An international webinar has recently put the spotlight on the wide-ranging handicrafts, tourist attractions, and cultural heritage existing across Iran’s Kerman province, a local official announced on Saturday.
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2020-11-23 18:56
UNESCO sites shut down amid third wave of COVID-19 in Iran
TEHRAN - Most of Iran’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, cultural heritage museums, and historical sites across the country have gone on lockdown for at least two weeks in cities defined as the high-risk “red” zones due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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2020-11-23 10:47
By Afshin Majlesi
14 of the greatest castles, fortresses, and citadels in Iran
Since antiquity, mankind has assumed the need to fortify properties to survive in an ever-changing world of invasion and conquest.Commencing from simple earthworks and wooden walls, fortifications were gradually evolved into complex, unconquerable imposing citadels.
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2020-10-09 18:01
Levelled by earthquake: restoration of giant UNESCO-tagged Bam Citadel 80% complete
TEHRAN – The overall restoration of the massive Bam Citadel, a massive mud-brick stronghold in southeast Iran, which was totally flattened by an earthquake in 2003, is now eighty percent complete.
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2020-08-12 00:07
By Afshin Majlesi
20 wonderful, must-see cultural sites in Iran
If you ask foreign visitors to Iran about the most characteristic future they discovered during excursions in the ancient land, the most possible answers may be somewhat like these: “It is the friendliest country on Earth with loads of warm-hearted welcome!”; “It is the jewel in Islam’s crown in terms of architecture”; “Being home to fascinating cultural heritage sites”; or “a land where echoes of ancient civilizations still resonate down through the ages!”
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2020-05-08 20:04
By Afshin Majlesi
Iran, quakes, and tourism
Early on Friday, an earthquake of magnitude 5.1 struck Damavand county, 56km northeast of the capital Tehran, killing two and injuring 33. It made an excuse for writing a note about the impact of natural disasters, specifically earthquakes, on tourism and cultural heritage.
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2020-04-24 23:33
Iran’s UNESCO World Heritage sites available online during Ramadan
TEHRAN – Iran’s UNESCO World Heritage sites can be visited on virtual tours during the holy month of Ramadan, Mohammad-Hassan Talebian, deputy tourism minister announced on Thursday, IRNA reported.
