1     Naqsh-e Jahan Square (Meidan-e Emam),1979
2    Persepolis,1979
3    Chogha Zanbil ,1979
4    Takht-e Sleiman, 2003
5    Bam and its Cultural Landscape ,2004
6    Pasargadae ,2004
7    Soltaniyeh Dome ,2005
8    Bisotun ,2006
9    Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran ,2008
10   Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System ,2009
11    Sheikh Safi Al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble ,2010
12   Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex ,2010
13    The Persian Gardens ,2011
14    Gonbad-e Qabus ,2012
15    Friday Mosque of Isfahan ,2012
16    Golestan Palace ,2013
17    Shahr-i Sukhta or burnt city ,2014
18    Cultural Landscape of Meymand ,2015
19    Susa ,2015
20   The Persian Qanats ,2016
21     Lut desert ,2016
22    The Historic City of Yazd ,2017
23    The Sassanid Archeological Landscape ,2018
24    Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests ,2019


1.    Naqsh-e Jahan Square (Meidan-e Emam),1979
Meydan-e Naghshe Jahan is an important testimony to the social and cultural life of Persia in the Safavid era and was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1979 as an important historical site.
In traditional Muslim town planning, which does not prefer large squares, this square is something fundamentally new; it is also ahead of numerous other squares in European cities. According to the typical structure of Iranian architecture (a rectangular area lined with four Ivan’s), its four sides are lined with four buildings: two mosques (the Imam mosque and the Lotfollah mosque), a palace (Ali Qapu) and the entrance portal of the bazaar.
Almost all sightseeing in Isfahan begins or ends in the Great Square, which is now called Meydan-e Imam. Today, in the arcades around the square, there are handicraft shops.

2. Persepolis (1979)
One of the great wonders of the ancient world is the Persepolis known locally as Takht-e-Jamshid, which is one of the most ancient civilizations in the world. The monument was the center of the great Persian Empire and ceremonial capital of the Achaemenian. The importance and quality of the monumental ruins make it a unique archaeological site.
It has been proved that It was Darius I the Great, who ordered the construction of Persepolis, particularly the terrace and the main palaces inspired by Mesopotamian models between 518 and 516 B.C. The construction of Persepolis was followed during the reign of his son, King Xerxes the Great. Finally 330 B.c. The Alexander Macedonia attack there, was destroy it.

3.  Chogha Zanbil (1979)
Chogha Zanbil historical region is an ancient city constructed by Elamite king in the 13th century BC. The ziggurat is arguably the most distinct architectural feature of the Mesopotamian civilization. Nevertheless, some of these structures have been found to exist outside the area once occupied by this ancient civilization. One of these ziggurats is located in Chogha Zanbil (meaning ‘basket mound’), near Susa in the Khuzestan province of modern day Iran. This city was consisted of different parts such as Ziggurat, concentric enclosed walls, entrance gateways, temples, houses, palaces, water disposal facilities and three inner, central and outer fences.it was built about 1250 BC by the king Untash-Napirisha, mainly to honor the great god Inshushinak, meaning the guard of Susa.The main building materials in Chogha Zanbil were mud bricks and occasionally baked bricks.

     
4. Takht-e Soleyman (Throne of Soleyman) (2003)
Takht-e Soleyman is an Iranian archaeological site, located 45 km north east of Takab County in west Azerbaijan province. It covers an area of about 124000 Sq. and the name is Persian equivalent for Soleyman’s Throne.
In different historical periods, Medians, Parthians, Sassanid’s, and Mongols had settled in this area .This historical – cultural complex includes traces of human settlement from the first millennium B.C. According to some historians, it has been the birthplace of Zoroaster. UNESCO has approved this monumental complex as world Heritage site in 2003. 

        
5.  Bam and its Cultural Landscape (2004)
Arg-e-Bam, the largest mud brick complex of the world located in a desert environment, on the southern edge of Iranian high and far south of Iran plateau, in Kerman Province. There is a huge fort, at the heart of which the main Arg (castle) is located as the highest sector. This unique complex was damaged seriously in the earthquake in 2003, and it has been restored and reconstructed cooperated with many countries as Japan, Italy and France. In this rough environment, people has been able to have water by construction of Qanat.
Arg-e Bam is the most representative example of the interaction between human and nature in a desert environment.

      
6. Pasargadae (2004)
Pasargadae is an outstanding ensemble of palaces, gardens and the tomb of Cyrus the Great. the position of the site is also denoted in its name which means the camp of Persia. Pasargadae was the first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus II the Great, in Pars, homeland of the Persians, in the 6th century BC. Its palaces, gardens and the mausoleum of Cyrus are outstanding examples of the first phase of royal Achaemenid. 

7. Soltaniyeh Dome (2005)
Soltaniyeh historical dome, the largest brick dome in the world, was built commissioned by Sultan Mohammad Khodabandeh (Oljeitu) in Soltaniyeh city, the capital of Ilkhanid dynasty from 1302 to 1312. The Dome of Soltaniyeh paved the way for more daring Iranian-style cupola constructions in the Muslim world, such as the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi and the Taj Mahal. Much of its exterior decoration has been lost, but the interior retains superb mosaics, faience, and murals. UNESCO has approved this monumental complex as world Heritage site in 2005.

8. Bisotun (2006)
 The Bisotun is located in the northwest Iranian province of Kermanshah. This world heritage site was a famous place in the history of ancient Iran and south-west Asia with an uninterrupted archeological sequence from pre–history to 20th century AD. Carved on limestone on the Bisotun hillside (southern hillside of Paru Mountain), Bisotun inscription is the largest, most famous and the first known Iranian inscription. The principal monument of this archeological site is the bas-relief and cuneiform inscription ordered by Dariush 1 the great when he rose to the throne of the Persian Empire, 521 BC.

9. Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran (2008)
 The Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran, in the north-west of the country, consists of three monastic ensembles of the Armenian Christian faith: St Thaddeus and St Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor. These edifices - the oldest of which, St Thaddeus, dates back to the 7th century – are examples of outstanding universal value of the Armenian architectural and decorative traditions. The remnants of all the three buildings are quite impressive and worth visiting. They have been restored during various eras. Many Armenians from all around the world come to Iran to visit these sites every year.

10. Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System (2009)
The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System demonstrates outstanding universal value as in its present form, it dates from the 3rd century CE, probably on older bases from the 5th century BCE. It is complete, with numerous functions, and large-scale, which making it exceptional. The water streaming from the caves and tunnels of Iran’s Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System looks like it is flowing through ancient tunnels created by massive worms. But actually, the elaborate system of waterworks was built by different civilizations over centuries of development.

11. Sheikh Safi Al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble (2010)
This place is in fact a collection of tombs of elders, sheikhs and Safavid kings and a sacred place for worshiping and praying in Ardabil. Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble was built as a small microcosmic city with bazaars, public baths, squares, religious buildings, houses, and offices. It was the largest and most complete khānegāh and the most prominent Sufi shrine since it also hosts the tomb of the founder of the Safavid Dynasty. Sheikh Safi al-din Ardabili, a great Sufi and mystic, turned his Khanegah (a building designed specifically for gatherings of a Sufi brotherhood or tariqa) into a shrine of love and faith, where the poor were fed and the dervishes were provided with shelter, and food.

 
12. Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex (2010)
Tabriz has long been a place of cultural and commercial exchanges and one of the most important trade centers on the Silk Road, Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex is one of the biggest and most important covered bazaars in the world. The bazaar, which is located at the heart of Tabriz, flourished in the 16th century when the city shortly became the capital of the Safavid dynasty (1501-1736). Bazaar includes several structures intended for commercial and trade-related activities, and social gatherings as well as schools, and mosques. This bazaar has become a unique environment which brought together the people of different professions and from different cultures.

13. The Persian Gardens (2011)
The Persian garden is a special type of architecture and structure of a garden and palace that Iranians invented and designed. This type of garden with a beautiful and eye-catching design is a symbol of the architectural, historical, and cultural richness of Iran. The general pattern of Persian gardens (Iranian gardens) has a rectangular form consisting of four quarters abundant in trees and flowers, streams and pathways, ponds and fountains, usually a central pavilion, and the walls that surround the garden. The gardens located in different climatic parts of Iran have their unique features but are still similar in overall structure.

14. Gonbad-e Qabus (2012)
Gonbad-e Qabus tower is a majestic structure made of bricks, with special technicalities and effects of art, related to the 4th century AH. The tower is a fortified building, constructed by strong elements, and consists of beautiful ornamental works in proportionate lines adorned with harmony. The said structure consists of three parts - foundation, the main building and the dome which is conical, rising to an elevation of 55m. The actual structure rests on a round base, 2 m of which is above the ground, and the rest lies as an underground base.

15. Friday Mosque of Isfahan (2012)
Friday Mosque is the oldest preserved edifice of its type in Iran and a prototype for later mosque designs throughout Central Asia. The complex, covering more than 20,000 m2, it is also the first Islamic building that adapted the four-courtyard layout of Sassanid palaces to Islamic religious architecture. Masjed-e Jāme’ is the oldest Friday (congregational) mosque in Iran, located in the historical center of Isfahan. The monument illustrates a sequence of architectural construction and decorative styles of different periods in Iranian Islamic architecture, covering 12 centuries, most predominantly the Abbasid, Buyid, Seljuq, Ilkhanid, Muzzafarid, Timurid and Safavid eras.

16. Golestan Palace (2013)
The palace covers an area of 53000 m2 and displays different periods of the history of Iran. Even though the major part of the palace belongs to Qajar era, every single corner of the complex looks unique and has its own history to tell. Marble Throne, Brilliant Hall, Ivory Hall, Mirror Hall, Diamond Hall are some of the main points of the palace. While your look is moving from dazzling mirror mosaics to painted domes, you will not notice how time passes. Golestan Palace Built during the Qajar Dynasty that rose to power in the late 1700’s, this fabulous walled complex is centered on a landscaped garden with tranquil pools. The palace buildings are among the oldest in modern Tehran.

17. Shahr-i Sukhta or burnt city (2014)
Shahr-i Sokhta, meaning ‘Burnt City’, is located at the junction of Bronze Age trade routes crossing the Iranian plateau. The structures, burial grounds and a large number of significant artifacts unearthed there, and their well-preserved state due to the dry desert climate, make this site a rich source of information regarding the emergence of complex societies and contacts between them in the third millennium BC.

18. Cultural Landscape of Meymand (2015)
The cultural landscape of Maymand is one of the most ancient human settlements in the world that has survived from twelve thousand years ago. Ten-thousand year-old paintings and six-thousand-year-old pottery are among the glowing documents that narrate the history of Maymand. It is a self-contained, semi-arid area, rocky village, a unique troglodyte village of kiche (cave-houses) and in fact, it is a memorable stop between Kerman and Yazd, Iran. Estimating when the village was created is a very difficult job, many researches have been done and many theories were made in this regard. Some believe that it was made in seventh and eighth century BC because Medes made several rocky monuments in the east of Iran and Mithraism was a common religion at the same time. Others attribute it to the end of Parthian dynasty and early Sassanid period.

19. Susa (2015)
Susa has been one of the most magnificent ancient cities of Iran and the world, dates back to the 5th millennium BCE is one of the first civilizations in Mesopotamia, located in the south-west of Iran. It is better to know that this ancient city had built by Elam, the pre-Iranian civilization. This three-thousand-year capital had stood until the late Achaemenes Empire. The ancient city of Susa was the center of Elamite civilization, which is located 150 km east of the Tigris River in Khuzestan province. Susa has been the capital since about 2700 BC and this capital lasts until the end of the Achaemenes Empire, which is more than 3000 years.

20. The Persian Qanats (2016)
A qanat is one of a series of well-like vertical shafts, connected by gently sloping tunnels. Qantas create a reliable supply of water for human settlements and irrigation in hot, arid, and semi-arid climates. The qanat technology is known to have been developed by the Persian people sometime in the early 1st millennium BC and spread from there slowly westward and eastward. The value of the qanat is directly related to the quality, volume, and regularity of the water flow.

21. Lut desert (2016)
The Lut Desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, is located in the southeast of Iran. Lut desert is divided into three geographical landforms: Northern Lut constituted of the elements of gravel and sand; Central Lut, as the most amazing part with highly astonishing phenomena in the world like Kaluts (Natural ridges in various forms resulted from the water, wind and erosion mechanisms), as well as the masses and huge sandy dunes; South Lut with the richest vegetation, Is an extreme landscape in more ways than one. The hyper-arid desert has been identified by NASA as the hottest place on Earth. Those who brave a visit will soon discover the beautifully strange scenery that make this place one of a kind.

22. The Historic City of Yazd (2017)
The City of Yazd is located in the deserts of Iran close to the Spice and Silk Roads. It’s the traditional earthen city where life has been adopted to its desert location, most notable via the water system of the Qanats.  This city is within the present city of Yazd surrounded by the neighborhoods emerging throughout history. It’s one of the most outstanding cities in the world where the houses are made of sun-dried bricks. Yazd has always been a proud collection of the most brilliant cultural heritage spots of the world.

23. The Sassanid Archeological Landscape (2018)
The Sassanid archaeological landscape was influenced by the Achaemenid and Parthian cultural and ritual traditions, and their architectural and artistic approaches. It was also influenced by the cultural interchange with the Roman art and architecture, contemporaneous with it. Its significant impact on urban planning, architecture and artistic approaches in the Islamic era is considerable. Eight archaeological sites situated in three geographical parts in the southeast of Fars Province: Firozabad, Bishapur and Sarvestan. These fortified structures, palaces, and city plans date back to the earliest and latest times of the Sassanian Empire, which stretched across the region from 224 to 658 CE.

24. Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests (2019)
There are Hyrcanian mixed forests in the north of Iran that dating back to the Jurassic period. These forests are called natural museums or living fossils. The name Hyrcan is the old name of Gorgan in the Mazanderani dialect.  The forests run some 850 kilometers along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. They date back up to 25 to 50 million years. Moreover, it said, and are home to the Persian Leopard, nearly 57 other mammal species, and 180 bird species.