Hamedan to hold fam tour for travel insiders, media persons

TEHRAN – Tourism authorities of Hamedan province system to keep a familiarization tour in a bid to boost touring to the west-central province.

Journalists, tour operators, photographers, influencers, and travel bloggers from all more than the place have been invited to the tour, which will be held from Could 17 to 20, the deputy provincial tourism chief Ali Khaksar explained on Sunday. 

“To restore tourism in the write-up-corona era, this tour has been arranged to inspire persons to vacation to this location, considering the fact that the province’s tourism sector has suffered stagnation and serious damage thanks to the pandemic,” the formal additional. 

All through the visits to many spiritual, historic, and organic attractions with unique applications, tour members will achieve a further understanding of the infrastructure and accommodations, souvenirs and handicrafts, customs, and tradition of most metropolitan areas in the province, he mentioned. 

Identified in classical times as Ecbatana, Hamedan was one particular of the historic world’s best metropolitan areas. Pitifully small stays from antiquity, but important components of the metropolis center are supplied in excess of to excavations. Ecbatana was the capital of Media and subsequently a summer season residence of the Achaemenian kings who dominated Persia from 553 to 330 BC.

Hamedan has had a lot of names: it was quite possibly the Bit Daiukki of the Assyrians, Hangmatana, or Agbatana, to the Medes, and Ecbatana to the Greeks. One of the Median capitals, beneath Cyrus II (the Wonderful died 529 BC) and afterwards Achaemenian rulers, it was the website of a royal summer time palace.

About 1220 Hamedan was ruined by the Mongols. In 1386 it was sacked by Timur (Tamerlane), a Turkic conqueror, and the inhabitants were massacred. It was partly restored in the 17th century and subsequently adjusted arms generally amongst Iranian ruling residences and the Ottomans.

Sitting down on a large simple, Hamedan is graciously awesome in August but snow vulnerable and freezing from December to March. In summer season the air is frequently hazy.

Ali Sadr cave, Ganjnameh inscriptions, Avicenna Mausoleum, Hegmataneh hill, Alaviyan dome, Jameh mosque, and St. Stephanos Gregorian Church are amongst Hamedan’s sights to name a couple of.

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