Travel Tips

A general view of the remains of Persepolis.
Persepolis was the religious and ceremonial centre of the Achamenian kings, comprised a great audience chamber, the hall of a hundred columns, anterooms, a treasury, stables, and numerous other buldings. Alexander destroyed the magnificient palaces, not long after the death of the last of the achaemenians king, (Darius lll) in 331 B.C.

The frieze of tributaries that adorns the base of the great hall of Apadana.

Limestone bulls, flank the doorway of persepolis official entrance. Named of the gate of all lands by king Xerxes, who commissioned it around 475 B.C.

Decorative capitals, surmounted either by horned lions addorsed or promotes of bulls surmounted the fluted columns, each sixty feet high. which supported the cedarwood ceiling at the palace of persepolis.

Bas relief of the tributaries.
Arachosians (top), Babylonians (middle),
Assyrians and Phoenicians (bottom).

If you go from Siraz (persepolis) drive for 5 hrs to Esfahan, you will see part of amazing Iran.

This bridge its located in the downtown of Esfahan city. Its a very long bridge.