Tabas

Tabas is a city and a desert region with an arid climate located in the southern Khorāsān region where human settlement dates back to the Achaemenid period. In the Tabas area you can admire over 155 historical sites and tourist, religious, natural attractions including: the majestic Imāmzādeh Hossein Ben Musa Al-Kāzem (the largest religious tourist center of Tabas), the Imāmzādeh Ali, the Imāmzādeh Zarg , the Imāmzādeh Fashā'-Tāgh-e Shāh Abbās dating back to 700 years ago, the Golshan garden, among the notable examples of an Iranian garden, relating to the era of the Afsharid kingdom which includes 2000 date palms, 2500 citrus trees, 500 pomegranates and other plant species, the mausoleum of Sheikh Abunasr Irāvei (Pir Hājjāt), the mountain village of Azmighān (a fusion of rice fields in the north and palm groves in the south) and that of Kharu, the Karit dam dating back about 1000 years ago, the brick and stone Shāh Abbāsi dam known as Tāgh-e Abbasi (which dates back more than 700 years), the thermal spring Dig-e Rostam, the villages Sarand, Māvadar, Halvān and Esfahak with a desert architecture, the adobe houses and the palm trees, the Gebr (of the Zoroastrians), the Khān caravanserai in the ancient Tabas-Yazd road section, the fortresses of the Ismaili (dating back to the Seljuk period), Nay Band, Shāhzādeh, Ghani Ābād, Hāderbāsh, Bam, Yusef Ābād, Dokhtar, Kalshāne, , Pir Hājjāt, Jukhāh, Pistān, Parudeh, the ancient Fahālnaj fortress, the citadel of Tabas, the hossenyeh of Yusef Ābād, the Dastgerdān mosque, the Khosrow Ābād mausoleum, the Halvān cave dating back to 160 million years ago, or era of the Middle Jurassic, the forest park of Tabas, the salt lake of Khuro etc ...

Overall Tabas is one of the most extraordinary creations of nature and hardworking desert people.