Tehran
Altitude between 1,200 and 1,700 meters.Mehrabad Airport to the west of city.
Railway: European link through
Tabriz and Istanbul, internal lines to Mashad, Yazd
and Khoramshar. Regular coach services in alldirections.
Nearly 12 Million People live in Tehran Bozorg in contrast to two hundred
thousand in 1920. Tehran is immense and proliferates like a coral reef, but in
an orderly manner. Nine-tenths of the built up area is in square blocks with
absolutely straight boulevards.
The visitor who has been away for a while can no longer find the way around the
city. New roads link the western part of the city to the northern quarters.
Towering buildings have been erected right and left.
Large stores, super-markets, self-service shops have been opened, public buildings,
goverment departments and monuments have been built and array of giant cranes show
the development fever.
Tehran is pleasant, it derives its originality from its dry climate, always cool in
the evening,its pure sky, the nearness of the mountains, its numerous parks and
gardens where flowers blossom throughout the year, the alleys of young plan-trees in
the avenues or even smaller streets, the water which runs down from the upper city
along deep and wide gutters which look like small rivers during spring.
Daring modern buildings, erected during the past few years, give, despite their
frequently dry architecture, an impression of what Tehran's beauty will be in the
year 2000.
The Alborz range separates the central plateau front the lush Caspian littoral,
the only part of the country where the rainfall is plentiful.
The highest peak in the country, Mt. Damavand, is an extinct volcano covered in
snow for most of the year.
Mount Damavand, the highest mountain in Iran, has for centuries, attracted
mountaineers, nomads and legends to its snow-covered slopes. The epic hero Feraydun
wrestled and defeated the evil giant Zahhak, chaining him to a cave on the mountain
peak.
Villagers living near the base of the volcano still remark that Dahhak is straining
to be free at the first signs of smoke or rumbling often heard deep within the mountain.
On a clear day, the 18,550 foot cone is visible from Tehran, fifty miles away.
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