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Persepolis
Founded in 518 BC by Darius I, Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. Built on a vast, half-artificial, half-natural platform, it was here that the King of Kings built an impressive palace complex inspired by Mesopotamian models. The importance and quality of these monumental remains make it a unique archaeological site.
Cultural Landscape of Maymand
Maimand is a self-sufficient semi-arid region at the end of a valley in the southern end of the mountains of central Iran. The villagers are semi-nomadic agro-pastoralists. They raise livestock on mountain pastures and live in temporary settlements in the spring and autumn. In the winter they live in cave dwellings hewn out of soft rock (kamar) below the valley, an unusual form of housing in a dry desert environment. This cultural landscape is an example of a system that seems to have been more common in the past and involved the movement of people rather than animals.
Cultural Landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat
The remote mountain landscape of Khoraman/Ulamanat bears witness to the traditional culture of the Khorami people, an agro-pastoral Kurdish tribe that has inhabited the region since around 3000 BC. Located in the heart of the Zagros Mountains in Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces on the western border of Iran, the property consists of two parts: the central eastern valley (Zhaverud and Takht in Kurdistan province); and the western valley (Lahun in Kermanshah province). Over thousands of years, human settlement patterns in these two valleys have adapted to the rugged mountain environment. Tiered steep slope planning and architecture, gardening on dry stone terraces, livestock raising and seasonal vertical migration characterize the local culture and life of the semi-nomadic Khorami people, who inhabit both lowlands and highlands at different seasons of the year. Their uninterrupted presence in the landscape is also marked by extraordinary biodiversity and endemism, as evidenced by stone tools, caves and rock shelters, earthen mounds, remains of permanent and temporary settlements, as well as workshops, cemeteries, roads, villages, castles, etc. The 12 villages at the site demonstrate how the Hawrami people have responded over thousands of years to the scarcity of productive land in their mountainous environment.
Kuixing Tower
Chengde Kuixing Tower Scenic Area is located on the top of Banbi Mountain in the southern part of Chengde City. It was built in the 8th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1828) by Hai Zhong, the then prefect of Chengde. It is the largest Taoist temple built after the Eight Outer Temples. Kuixing Tower is famous for enshrining the Kuixing God who "opens the literary fortune and points the top scholar", and students from thousands of miles around rush to worship. The original building stood on the top of Banbi Mountain. It was a three-room hard-mountain mud-tile hall, which was destroyed due to years of disrepair. The newly built Kuixing Tower is located on the original Banbi Mountain, covering an area of more than 100 acres. Its building scale is much larger than the original building, and it has added many new contents with rich cultural connotations. The surrounding 800-meter wall is made of tiger skin wall stone and blue bricks into battlements, winding along the cliff, like a giant dragon covering the main building, enhancing the momentum of the landscape. The main buildings in the scenic area are colorful and magnificent. The whole group of buildings are built according to the terrain of the mountain, staggered and stacked. From top to bottom, they are buildings, corridors, halls, pavilions and gardens, presenting a unique Taoist architectural style.