all things about travelling to Shiraz in Iran
Provincial
Capital of Fars, Altitude 1,600 meters, 500 km S of Esfahan (935 km
from Tehran) , 300 km N-E of Bushehr , 600 km E of Abadan.
The
city of roses and nightingales, the city of poets and philosophers, the
city of warriors and kings, orchards and orangeries, adonises and
fragrant blossoms and above all the city of monuments where great
empires of Achaemenians have come to power.
This beautifully cut gemstone amongst Iranian cities, the fascinating poems and enchanting elegies, the city of Shiraz is situated on the green plains at the foot of the Allah-o-Akbar mountain.Karimkhan Zand made Shiraz his
capital. The garden lanes of orangeries in this melodious city, filled
the souls of poets such as Saadi and Hafez with higher sentiments and
those two honored poets of Islamic culture and literature will always
shine in the history of this city.
