2-Day Tehran Sightseeing Tour with Palaces, Bazaars and Museums

Meet your tour guide at a predecided location.

Visit Old Tehran and see the UNESCO-registered Golestan Palace Complex. You can see the famed Marble Throne, Shams-ol-Emareh (Edifice of the Sun), Emarat-e Badgir (wind tower monument), and the Anthropology Museum.

Walk through the Tehran Grand Bazaar and see the endless rows of shops, where you can find anything from spices, handicrafts, and carpets to musical instruments, tea, and jewelry.

Stop for lunch at one of the landmark restaurants in the bazaar, which have been serving customers and merchants for nearly a century.

Visit Sar dar Bagh-e Melli (the National Garden Façade) and the National Museum of Iran.

Visit the Qajar Mansion, which is the location of the Abgineh Museum, with its pre-Islamic to Islamic-era collections of glassware and porcelain.

Visit the Crown Jewels Museum with its priceless treasures, ranging from the Kiani Crown and the Naderi Throne to the Bejeweled Globe, made of 51,366 precious stones.

Have dinner at one of the traditional restaurants, such as Dizi Azeri, which has been around for decades.

Proceed to the Museum of Contemporary Arts, which has the biggest collection of Western art outside Europe and the US. The works of Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh, Pollock, Monet, Munch, Moore, and Warhol are displayed here.

Admire Azadi Tower, the first symbol of Tehran, which was inspired by the arches used in Achaemenid, Sassanid, and Islamic architecture, and visit its museum.

Visit the Saadabad Palace Complex and its many palace museums, which please visitors with their architecture, design, and the precious items they hold.

Have lunch in a modern Tehran restaurant and try some of the local dishes.

Walk through the more modern and yet still traditional Tajrish Bazaar, which brings together an old bazaar and modern shopping centres. You can also visit Imamzadeh Saleh, a popular pilgrimage site in Tehran where locals regularly donate salt and light candles.

Visit Milad Tower, the second and newer symbol of Tehran, where you can see the entire city from the observation deck and have dinner at one of its many restaurants.