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Tabriz’s Blue Mosque, where glorious history meets timeless Iranian architecture
Oct 04, 2026 09:48Pars Today - Tabriz’s Blue Mosque, built in 1465, is a prime tourist attraction that showcases exceptional tilework, royal patronage, cultural exchange and remarkable resilience through centuries of earthquakes and upheaval.
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Tabriz, where Iran’s Silk Road legacy meets industry, trade and a new economic future
Oct 04, 2026 09:37Pars Today - Tabriz has been a strategic crossroads for millennia, with its location along the Silk Road transforming it into a major commercial hub whose historic bazaar remains the world's largest covered market and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Tabriz’s Armenian heritage of churches, commerce and art woven into social fabric
Sep 30, 2026 11:17Pars Today- Armenian Christian trading networks had been active across the region for centuries, connecting Tabriz to distant markets. However, the Armenian presence was not limited to trade and also extended into social and cultural life. Armenian theater later reached audiences beyond the Armenian community, reflecting Tabriz’s broader cultural exchange.
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Tabriz’s iconic ‘Mausoleum of Poets,’ where centuries of Persian literary history lives on
Sep 30, 2026 09:05Pars Today- On the night of September 18, 1988, an ambulance carried the body of an 82-year-old poet out of a Tehran hospital, beginning the journey back to the city where he was born.
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Kharraqan Twin Towers in Qazvin and the brilliance of Iranian brick architecture
Sep 14, 2026 07:40Pars Today- The Kharaqan Towers are considered the earliest examples of double-shell domes in Iran, in which the double-shell system separates the structural functions of the dome from its exterior architectural form.
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Qazvin's Alamut Castle, a legendary fortress in Alborz Mountains and new UNESCO heritage site
Sep 14, 2026 07:20Pars Today- Alamut Castle in Qazvin Province, northwestern Iran, was never conquered by a direct military attack throughout its history. Hassan Sabbah seized it through a political strategy in 1090, while the Mongols only managed to force its surrender in 1256, after the Nizari Ismailis’ surrounding defensive network had collapsed.
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Qazvin, the beating heart of Iran’s centuries-old calligraphy tradition
Sep 13, 2026 05:22Pars Today- Qazvin Province, located in northwestern Iran, 130 kilometers west of Tehran, has been deeply intertwined with the art of Persian calligraphy for centuries.
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Qale Kord Cave in Qazvin, where visitors encounter ancient origins of human life
Sep 12, 2026 07:17Long before modern humans existed, another kind of human was already living in a cave west of Qazvin, and the tools and teeth they left behind are now rewriting Iran’s human story.
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Qazvin, the Safavid capital of palaces, gardens and grand avenues that shaped Iran’s urban landscape
Sep 10, 2026 15:11Tahmasb I moved the Safavid capital from Tabriz to Qazvin in the mid-sixteenth century, and Qazvin remained the capital of Safavid Iran for roughly half a century until Shah Abbas I transferred the court to Isfahan in 1596–97.
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Qazvin’s underground water cisterns stand as monuments to ancient Iranian engineering
Sep 08, 2026 09:51Pars Today — Qazvin Province, located in northwestern Iran about 130 kilometers west of Tehran, once had a highly dense network of more than 100 water reservoirs. Today, only a small number remain intact, including Sardar-e Bozorg, considered the largest preserved single-domed water reservoir in Iran.