Iran Part 7: اصفهان‎, Esfahān

qAaaaahhh! Esfahan! (Isfahan.) A nexus of culture and beauty! ‘Isfahan among those rarer places, like Athens or Rome, which are the common refreshment of humanity’. (Robert Byron, author of the 1937 travelogue The Road to Oxiana.)



Truly, we eagerly awaited our arrival in this, ‘Esfahan nesf-e jahan’ (Esfahan is half the world)

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