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Most first itineraries follow the same line: Tehran, Kashan, Isfahan, Yazd, Shiraz. It works, and it leaves out half the country. The wet tea slopes of Gilan, the stepped villages of Kurdistan and the red-soil shore of Hormuz sit well off that route.<\/p>\n

This section holds our city guides and our articles on sights, bazaars, parks, islands and stations across Iran. Each city and province also has its own hub, such as Isfahan<\/a>, Yazd<\/a>, Shiraz<\/a> and Tehran<\/a>, which gathers everything we have written about it.<\/p>\n

If this is your first trip, read our pillar Iran travel guide<\/a> first. Then pick from the guides most readers start with:<\/p>\n