Hamadan
The city is located in the north west of Iran in a mountainous area that gives it a cold climate.
Once the Median capital under Cyprus the great, Hamadan is one of the most continually inhabited ancient civilization centers.
Hamadan was ruled by successive dynasties e.g. Achaemenians; Parthians and Sassanians but later fiercely victimized by various racial invaders.
What we have today as the modern Hamadan, is a result of the reconstruction plans made by the German architect, Karl Fritsch, leaving us little of the splendor that once characterized the ancient city.
Today, Hamadan attracts tourists who come to visit:
the famous Stone Lion; the Mausoleum of the Persian philosophical, mathematical and medical genius, Aboo Ali Sina (Avecinna); the shrine of Esther Mordarcia, an important site of Jewish pilgrimage; Anahita Temple towards the west along with Tagh-e-Bostan near Kermanshah; and above all, Ali Sadr Water Cave, a network of underground lakes, on some of which we can go boating.
