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ONE DAY TEHRAN SIGHTSEEING Package 1: - Carpet Museum - Iran Bastan Museum - Lunch (Traditional Iranian Food) - Golestan Palace - End Tour Package 2: - Carpet Museum - Touchal Telecabin - Lunch (Traditional Iranian Food) - Sa'adabad Palace - End Tour Both Packages starts from: 9:00 AM and ends 6:00 PM Start and end point: Hotel Laleh- Fatemi Ave.
IRAN BASTAN National Museum of Iran, aging more than 70 years, containing 300,000 museum objects in an area more than 20,000 square meters, is not only the largest museum of History and Archaeology of the country, but ranks as one of the few most prestigious museums of the world in regard to grand volume, diversity and quality of its huge monuments. In the Iranian museum tradition, it is considered as Iran's mother museum, aiming at preserving relics of the past to hand down to the next generations, enhancing better understanding among world peoples and nations, discovering and showing Iranian's roles in shaping world culture and civilization and trying to enhance public knowledge.
CARPET MUSEUM Located in Tehran, beside Laleh Park, and founded in 1976, the Carpet Museum of Iran exhibits a variety of Persian carpets from all over Iran, dating from 18th century to present. The museum's exhibition hall occupies 3,400 square meters (10,200 ft2) and its library contains 7,000 books. The museum was designed by the last Queen of Iran, Farah DiBa Pahlavi. The perforated structure around the museum's exterior is designed both to resemble a carpet room, and to cast shade on the exterior walls, reducing the impact of the hot summer sun on the interior temperature.
TOCHAL Mount Tochal is a mountain in the Alborz range and a ski resort adjacent to metropolitan Tehran, Iran. The mountain has a 12 km long ridgeline. The highest peak, also called Mount Tochal, is at an elevation of 3,964 m (13,005 feet) and at coordinates N E. Tochal is a popular recreational region for Tehran's residents. A gondola lift, named Tochal Telecabin runs from Tehran to the Tochal Ski Resort and the modern Tochal Hotel, all as a part of Tochal Complex.
Sa'adabad Palace The Sa'adabad Palace is a palace built by the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran in the Shemiran area of Tehran. The complex was first in habited by Qajar monarchs and royal family in the 19th century. After an expansion of the compounds, Reza Shah lived there in the 1920s. And his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi moved there in the 1970s. After the Iranian Revolution, the complex became a museum. However, the current presidential palace is located adjacent to the Sa'adabad compound. Sad Abad has 18 palaces, which 7 palaces had changed to museums. Nation Palace: Shah Reza summer villa Nation Arts Museum (or Africa museum): Situated in Nation Museum, where Chinese, Indian's and African's Dedications to Shah, is protected. Green Museum: Shah Reza Summer Palace Anthropology Search Museum: Any kind of Iranian customs, related to culture and civilization of ancient Iran are showed Military Museum: Equipment and Weapons from Achamenian priod to now Mir Emad Museum: Calligraphy Masterpieces of Mir Emad and his period other Calligraphists Abkar Museum: Klara Abkar Paintings Behzad Museum (miniature): Hossein Behzad paintings Fine Art Museum: 18th & 19th century European paintings Water Museum: Keeping, restoring and revenue operation of water in iran Tehran is the largest city and the capital of Iran, From 1778. The population of Tehran city in the year of 2012 is 8.5 million and is considered as the words 18th most populous city. The area of Tehran city is 730 sq. kmand it is 27th largest city in the world also the largest city in the west Asia. Tehran is a cosmopolitan city, with great museums, parks, restaurants, warm friendly people. The city can be roughly divided into two different parts- north and south. The northern districts of Tehran are more prosperous, modern, and expensive while southern parts are less attractive but cheaper. The official language of Tehran is Farsi language. PLACE OF INTEREST Azadi tower has been the long standing symbol of Tehran. Combines elements of Sassanid and Islamic architecture. National museum of Iran. Carpet museum crown jewels of Iran. Milad tower (the 6th tallest communication tower in the world) Golestan place, Niavaran palace, Sa'ad abad palace, Glassware museum of Tehran, Tochal tele cabin. Grand bazaar (traditional shopping area). |
