This is a postcard from Iran with misspelled description: Nishabur Rfsting – Piace of Khayam. If you know what this postcard shows feel free to leave your comment.

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Kandelous Agro – industrial Complex as the meeting place for culture, nature and science is proud to be pioneer in reconciliation of man with nature and natural way of life. The complex lies on the slopes of the gracious central Alborz mountains. The area while being the most intact and unpolluted environment is the richest, from the point of herbal flora and thus is the living place of most of the 8500 known species of plants in IRAN.

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Covering an area of 46,645 square kilometers, Mazandaran province is 11th in Iran from the largeness point of view. The famous townships of this province are Sari, Behshahr, Ghaemshahr, Babol, Babolsar, Amol, Noor, Nowshahr, Tonkabon, Ramsar, Mahmood-Abad, and Neka.

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Imam Square (Meidan Emam), also known as Isfahan Royal Square, a huge open area built in the 17th century is adorned by impressive mosques, fountains and bazaar. Planned and built some 300 years ago at the time of the Safavid dynasty, it is a world heritage site and one of the jewels of the Middle East.

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The Meidan is a long rectangle, set on a north-south axis. At each of the compass points, theres a unique and fascinating masterpiece. Fittingly, since the Meidan is also known as Naghsh-e Jahan, “Portrait of the World”, these can be divided into two quite earthly and two heavenly wonders.

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The Tomb of Hafez, located in the Musalla Gardens in Shiraz, is the mausoleum of 14th-century Persian poet Khajeh Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi (1331-1337). The tomb is situated in the middle of the second and supper garden in line with the centre of the Colonnade, and the ancient tombstone has remained its original position. Visitors can take a calming walk around the gardens, admire the elaborate ceiling of the cupola and stop for tea and rose water at the teahouse.

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The original Hafez structure was made in 1773 in the time of Karim Khan Zand, and in the centre stood four stone columns, the north and south sides were open, and on each of the other two sides a room had been built. The actual tomb of Hafez was outside and behind this building in the middle of the cemetery, and later on, an iron railing was fixed round the tomb, which did not have a fitting appearance.

Here is a poem by Hafez:

نديدم خوشتر از شعر تو حافظ
به قرآنى كه اندر سينه دارى

I have never seen any poetry sweeter than thine, O Hafez,
I swear it by that Koran which thou keepest in thy bosom.

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Satellite image of the Tomb of Hafez in Shiraz

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Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque is one of the architectural masterpieces of Safavid Iranian architecture, standing on the eastern side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square, Isfahan, Iran. The Shaykh Lutfallah (Sheikh Lotf Allah) Mosque was begun in about 1603 under the auspices of Shah Abbas Safavi who rightly so is called Shah Abbas the Great. It was completed in 1619. The Shaykh Lutfallah Mosque has no minarets as it was a private mosque used by the Safavid royal family members, presumably they did not need to be called to prayer. It is also known as the “Lady’s or Women’s Mosque” as the ladies of the court could worship there in private.

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The Lutfallah Mosque takes its name from Sheikh Lutfallah (Lotf Allah) Maisi Al-Amili, the distinguished scholar and teacher who came to Isfahan at Abbas’s request and took up ‘residence on the site; the mosque was only named after him later, after his death in 1622/23. Emerging from such a dark, twisting corridor, the interior of the mosque is a huge contrast, for the vast, glowing room is probably the most perfectly balanced interior in all Persian architecture. The additional function of the building is rather puzzling. In the foundation inscription over the entrance portal, it is called a mosque but the building lacks the standard accoutrements such as a courtyard, side galleries or minarets.

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