Persepolis, Iran’s most visited global heritage during Nowruz
Persepolis world heritage site, located in Iran’s south-western province of Fars, was the most visited monu-ment in Iran during Nowruz holidays, said a director at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts. A total of 261,049 visitors toured the historical site, fol-lowed by the Imam Square in Isfahan and Fin Garden in Kashan, IRNA wrote. Nowruz is the richest ritual heritage from the national culture, while the month of Ramadan is the most im-portant symbol of Islamic culture in Iran, he said, add-ing that the coincidence of the two events this year is of great significance. The five most visited prov-inces in terms of national and global heritage, were Fars (521,912 visitors), Is-fahan (437,223 visitors), Kerman (153,504 visitors), Kermanshah (134,208 visi-tors), and Khorasan Razavi (133,259 visitors), he noted. Fars Province in southwest Iran is home to several his-torical and cultural sites such as Karim Khan Citadel, Pars Museum and many others.