A large mausoleum (including a mosque) devoted to this leader.

This is a large complex that includes a mosque. Again, beautiful mosaics.

Touching portraits of Iranian martyrs, acknowledging their sacrifice  for the country.

This is a fifth century building  thought to be a hunting lodge.

Lots of long expanses of flat landscape, then a climb over the Zagros Mountains. And finally green fields where crops were being cultivated....

In Abyanah we visited a mausoleum built to commemorate an imam. All around the walls were pictures of present day martyrs. And outside a po...

The mosque has simple but elegant decoration. Also beautifully decorated was a private house thst is now an ethnographic museum. ...