Pars Event
Iran's cultural calendar
The tombs, gardens, museums and bazaars that are the stations on these routes.
Avicenna's tomb on Bu-Ali Square in Hamadan: a twelve-columned tower that remembers the Gonbad-e Qabus.
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The Safavid square of Isfahan, the Shah Mosque to the south and Ali Qapu to the west — one of the largest urban squares in the world.
The Persian garden of Kashan, watered from the Soleymanieh spring and running through its channels with no pump at all.
Rumi's tomb under the green dome of Konya — the Mevlevi lodge until 1925, a museum ever since.
The tomb of Attar of Neyshabur, poet of the Conference of the Birds, a few steps from Khayyam's.
Khayyam's tomb in a garden beside the Emamzadeh Mahruq: an open lattice whose shadow writes quatrains on the ground.
Hafez's tomb in northern Shiraz, between two orange gardens, under a tiled eight-ribbed dome.
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A Qajar house and garden in central Shiraz, its portico mirrored and its orange trees the reason for the name.
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Saadi's tomb in eastern Shiraz, beside the qanat and the fish pool that has held water since his own century.
Shiraz's main literary hall, near the Hafezieh.
The largest covered bazaar in the world, its Mozaffarieh timcheh still the carpet market.
Ferdowsi's tomb at Tus, north of Mashhad: a stone block modelled on the tomb of Cyrus, in a garden whose plane trees are as old as the building.
Event posters, photographs of the Hafezieh, and the lines that stayed with us.
