Fars province is a treasure chest of palaces, fortifications, and reliefs from the Sassanid period. In 2018, UNESCO registered eight archeological sites of this great treasure in Firoozabad, Bishapur, and Sarvestan: Dokhtar Castle, The Oldest Domed building in the WorldIn Persian, called /qal-e dokhtar/ Qaleh Dokhtar (Dokhtar means girl), as a 71-hectare fortress built by […]
In Persian, called /pasargad/ The archeological site of Pasargadae, the first capital of the Achaemenid Empire, was built by Cyrus II the Great after his victory over Astyages, the last king of the Median Empire, in 546 BC. Pasargadae means the homeland of the Persian or the camp of Persia, in the Morqab Plain, Fars […]