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The Many Faces of Iran
Yves KORBENDAU Yves KORBENDAU
Iran is a country to discover where foreign visitors can move around without constraints and meet a warm welcome. The areas of interest are many. First, the immense cultural wealth of the country, with architectural and artistic achievements of the great dynasties, Elam, Medes, Persians, Sassanid, or Saffavides Qajar, come down to us perfectly preserved and a source of wonder. Second, the diversity and beauty of landscapes, with lush shores of the Caspian Sea to the wild shores of the Persian Gulf, through the high snow-capped mountains of Alborz and Zagros and the vast deserts of salt, that make the discovery of a country constantly renewed pleasure.
Finally, animating this incomparable setting, population, both agricultural and urban, diverse in its habitat, habits, dress and customs according to the multiple regions that make up the country. modern state, however, Iran has managed to preserve its heritage: in almost all cities, older neighborhoods remain with their sumptuous bazaars, "picture of what was the East", where tourists get caught up in the magic of a stroll through the maze of alleys.
Very interested in their culture, especially the works of great poets and their miniature, the Iranians are still sensitive to literature and art of the West. The future will be decided with the country's youth, 60% of the population is under the age of twenty-five years.
312 pages
250 x 275 mm
850 reproductions
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