Things to see and do Tabriz

An unavoidable visit to Tabriz for one of the most beautiful museums in Iran, deployed on 3,000 m ² and hosting 4,500 archeological finds of the region. On the ground floor, see the potteries and sculptures of the Ve in the millennium before our era as well as the always impressive skeletons from excavations undertaken in Hasanlu and in different tepe (old fortresses or small towns built on hills) of the region. Note also the beautiful bronzes of the Acheside era and the beautiful silver jewels of the sassanide period. On the upstairs, two sections devoted to numismatic and Islamic times respectively. See in the first, apart from currencies, the beautiful collection of translated maps translated into English and highly instructive. The section dedicated to Islamic art includes beautiful food ceramics covering the period of the nineteenth century in the eighteenth century. Dwell on the collection of sabers, daggers and the original sword of Shah Ismaïl, which will impose chiism as state religion in the sixteenth century.

In the basement, you can admire a splendid collection of monumental sculptures due to Hasad Hosseini, native artist of Tabriz, whose name you may know if you are a fan of the Info's Guignols: he actually worked on the creation of sixty puppets of the cult program of Canal Plus. Works displayed at the Museum of Azerbaijan are much closer to the very black universe of the artist, who works on the human condition and the report of man to what surrounds him, whether politics, nature or wars.

Don't forget to finish visiting the small courtyard, where there are very beautiful carved stalls from various excavations.

The remains of the imposing citadel (or Arg) in decrepitude, built in the early days of the Mongolian occupation, at the beginning of the XIV century, occupy the location of an ancient mosque disappeared five centuries earlier. The heavy bastion that stands at more than 40 m high, reinforced by two powerful cylindrical towers and pierced with two high doors, retains a certain look. The thickness of the walls (10 m) and the quality of the equipment testify to the mastery of the military art of Mongols in these exposed border cities. A few years ago, it was possible to climb the top of the remains to enjoy the street, but at the moment the citadel was taken in the restoration yard of the nearby Imam Khomeiny mosque. It was even thought of a time to shave, but the population mobilized to save the remains of the city's great past.

" Ya Allah, there Allah, there Allah! " Like the song of a song, this little sentence pronounced with a tonic accent justifies in the aisles of the bazaar. Used by porters to warn of their arrival, it adds to the prevailing noise in this huge market. A real city in the city, it offers all the goods and services that can be imagined; barber, trader of appliances, beauty products and houses unusual scenes. Here, a kitchen clerk peeling onions, here a thommessen repriser one of his pieces. A few figures will measure the country's greatest bazaar, which is classified as a UNESCO heritage by UNESCO. The complex covers a network of 36 km of narrow streets, a veritable labyrinth in the heart of the city and covers 75 hectares with no fewer than 5 555 shops. If the exact dates of its creation remain uncertain, most of the current structure date of the Essentiel period (1750-1779).

In the left aisle you will find most carpet merchants. Tabriz is obviously one of the best steps for this type of purchase. There are mainly nomadic carpets, but carpets closer to Isfahan or Nain styles are also very numerous. To discover them and to negotiate them in the goutant of the cool secret is pure happiness!

One of the most pleasant places to shop is certainly the caravanserai.