Persepolis

Once the most powerful city in The World. These days it is mostly just ruins with a handful of intact structures and carvings....but enough to give you an idea of what it once was. Definitely a "must-visit" if you are in Shiraz.

Persianpolis has a 70-meter square, 100 stone pillars supported luxury hall, the second largest building in Persianpolis, known as the "Hundred pillars". Built during the reign of Xerxes and Atassexis I, one of the rows of collapsed pillars is impressive. The broken wall of the 32 pillar hall in front of it was built at the end of the Achemenid dynasty, most notably the unfinished gate.

The semi-relief on the eastern wall of the steps of the Apadana Palace in Persianpolis is the most stunning of the Persian ruins and the most impressive of all Iranian historical monuments. The panels on the north side depict scenes of Persians and Metiahs in ethnic costumes.

Persian Polis is about 50 kilometers away from Shiraz. There is no public transport to take. Generally, tourists go by chartered car. The list of chartered services provided by the hotel indicates the names of the scenic spots. If the Chartered tours take place in the Persian Emperor's Mausoleum and Sassanian relief near the Persian Polis home, the Chartered price is 1.2 million rials (equivalent to 240 yuan), which takes about five hours. If you add Pasargarde about 50 kilometers away from Persia, the Charter fare will be 1.8 million rials, and the time limit is within eight hours, and the extra time will cost more. Fortunately, I met a new Chinese male tourist who came to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, when I was consulting at the front desk. He arrived in Shiraz in the early morning by long-distance bus. Just when we agreed to charter a car to visit Persia Polis and Pasargarde, we could save each other money by carpooling. The train arrived at the first tourist attraction in about an hour - "Persipolis. Purchase tickets of 200,000 lira per person, enter the site of the Persian Empire in the scorching sun, and begin a tour that lasts about two hours in the sun. Persipolis is the most famous scenic spot in Iran. It is as famous as going to the Great Wall in China and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Located 52 kilometers northeast of Shiraz near Takht Jamhid, it was built after Darius I of the Persian Empire took office to commemorate the kings of the Achaemenid Kingdom. Persian Polis should have been built around 522 B.C., when it became not only a landmark building of the Persian Empire, but also a great store of wealth. It is said that "Polis" means the capital in the local language. Of course, the capital built on the hill is already protagonized by the ruins. After security checks into the scenic area, the scenic area is not allowed to carry larger backpacks and other items, there is a free deposit point at the door. Face to face are 111 steps carved from huge stones. These steps are 7 meters wide and 10 centimeters high. They are not wide enough. Today, in order to protect cultural relics, wooden walkways have been laid on the steps to avoid the ruthless trampling of visitors from all over the world 2500 years ago. The first thing you can see on the steps is the Gate of Nations, one of the most famous landmarks in Persian Polis. It is 18 meters high. On both sides of the stone pillar are two famous statues of Persian Orcs with human wings. Through the magnificent gates, we can see a more desolate landscape, full of broken walls, scattered and orderly ruins in the sun seems a bit bleak. But this desolation can not hide a kind of inexplicable tyranny, because we know that after all, it was the capital of the great Persian Empire 2500 years ago.

Iran's Persian Polis is similar to Turkey's Ephesus in style and similarity. If the magnificent scene of Ephesus attracts a large number of tourists to daydream about the prosperity of the year, while the Persian Poli site is fragmented, each area is relatively independent, tourists have enough space, or they can meditate before stone carvings, or frequently change their clothes to take a set of pictures in this background. There is also a secret under the pillars of Persian Polis. There is an area where under each pillar there is a box similar to a bank safe, which has been bought for hundreds of years to store important items. The tour guide did not answer how to open the box and retrieve the goods.

In order to wait for the millennium from prosperity to desolation, I heard that melodious Dutar always went through the frost with Populus euphratica and nightingales always accompanied by roses. In order to wait for the millennium from time to time, maybe the galloping horse passed not only the camel on the wall of Gobi, but also the ancient Persian Polis in the desert. Standing in front of your temple, you will see more than my homeland thousands of miles away.

Awesome site, the remains of 2500 years ago, have such perfect reliefs, it's amazing, I hope that human civilization can be preserved so that future generations will remember where we came from.