Esfahan nasf-e jahan est (‘Isfahan is half the world’) ‘… and rank Isfahan among those rarer places, like Athens and Rome, which are the common refreshment of humanity.’ Robert Byron The Road to Oxiana Isfahan, so the Persian phrase goes, is ‘half the world’. This, the third largest city in Iran, has quite a reputation … Continue reading "Isfahan: Half the World"
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