essermelo promised after a while start to publish, in serial form, the video of the summer trip to Iran 2005. In this first part of the arrival in Tehran, and moving south to Shiraz, where you can reach the testimonies of the ancient Achaemenid Empire of Persia: Persepolis, Pasargade ... For the curious
also follows the transcript of the first part of the shabby "diary" written on the road.
Enjoy
After a delayed start from Fiumicino airport, we managed to get there, oddly enough, in time making the flight to Tehran in about three and a half hours. We land at 18.30 and the only slight unease arises from the queue at passport control in a large room on the ground floor of the terminal. Waiting in line to the known first images of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, the late Ayatollah Khomeini and the current Khamenei, who watch.
The spirit of the trip is to reckon with some discomfort the first night but it is devoid. At the airport there is a driver to take a bus with 50 seats for us 19 and brings us to the Hotel Enghelab (revolution), in Taleqani, which with its massive 16-story 4-star eloquent and amazes us. Imagine having to stay in small hotels and instead sleep in a hotel that is probably linked to the period of the glories of the last shah in the mid 70s. From the terrace of room on the 15th floor in the distance we see the mountains that enclose the city skyline and, near the courtyard hotel entrance on the side wall of a building, a large mural by which the two ayatollahs monitor.
the morning in the capital is dedicated to visiting the National Museum and Museum of the adjacent Muslim. The departure does not shine for punctuality. After waking up at 7:30 and the breakfast we agreed to leave at 9.00. Among our indecision on how to reach the museum complex and misunderstanding with five drivers who had to accompany us lose some time. We continued to ask the National Museum in the various Western languages \u200b\u200band we knew we were amazed, strangely enough, no? Who did not understand the international "National Museum". For them it was Iran Bostan and only an indication of the proximity to the square Khomeini us to understand.
The race through the streets of Tehran by taxi is fun frivolous in the eyes of gullible tourists. In fact, the guide is a constant danger for unruly passengers and pedestrians, in particular, that they have no right, no streaks or stripes. Applies the law of the strongest and the poor are stranded near-last and avoided maneuvers by drivers dry.
The National Museum is not great. On display are objects that cover the pre-Islamic period going back to prehistory. Where we move people curious, almost greater than that aroused by the findings. Near the exit a group of students there stops and asks us of our trip also offer advice on where to eat. How much hospitality! The Islamic Museum near
it seemed more interesting (books, miniatures, ceramics, glass, ...). Looking at some Mihrab stucco placed in the rooms is well known, with the eye of an architect, two variations on the same type. The image is that of the portal 's iwan. In the two forms is the same the presence of the external frame is not conceived as a union of two piers and a lintel but as a continuous band. In the first type (perhaps the oldest), the portal itself inside the niche is given by two columns supporting two nuts (usually with a figure star above) which rests directly above the arc. In the other type is a simple continuous line that draws the whole profile of the lateral and vertical parts of the arc.
From museums we walked towards the building of Golestan. The building of cagiara age, extends down around a large courtyard. Unfortunately the wheels of government buildings around the crush. The building surrounds a large garden with pools of water. The garden is the center of the complex. The buildings are of a great impression. Walking through the rooms once we entered the real contact for the first time with an example of cagiara. I was skeptical about the aesthetic of the complex may because it is presented by Lonely Planet as an example of the excesses cagiari. Me pictured as a jumble of useless gaudy glitz and shown to conceal a poverty ideational. I've been wrong a little.
The building exhibits its opulence, especially in the throne room of marble. This room is not particularly great, overlooking the garden mo 'to lodge with a completely open front, unfortunately capped by an ugly white cloth. From this high loggia raised the Shah, perhaps arrogant and conceited, seated on the dais of the throne of alabaster, stands and enjoyed the garden at his feet.
The interior decoration is solved by a complex system of small mirrors and slides that cover the walls. (More forward look at how this decoration was originally a solution used for the mausoleum).
eaten a quick meal you run, literally, by taxi to the airport for flight to Shiraz. The driving is what makes me more nervous in Iran. While they conceded that, on average, drivers can be good drivers can not stand the effrontery with which they throw, dodging pedestrians, defying every rule of prudence. People crossing the road is only a hindrance and should be his and only his concern to avoid being taken down.
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