Esfahan Imam Square: Maidan-e-Naghsh-e-Jahan Square, Iran

The official name of the Imam Square is “Maidan-e-Naghsh-e-Jahan” which means Square of the World Portraits. In 1598, Shah Abbas I changed the capital to Isfahan and with large-scale city plans, began the construction of a new urban city.
This huge square is 512 m from north to south and 159 m from West to East. This makes the perfect relaxing plans if you’re up to relax times of course. The sun set get to be amazing to enjoy in this square and the sun goes down in the nearby Zagros Mountains.

All the tiles on the nearby mosques and madrassas get a special colour during sun set when also the square light are turn on. You can enjoy this moment gong to one of the few tea houses terraces that exist on the square. These tea houses are also Xixa houses where you can smoke flavoured tobacco.

View of the river in Esfahan by night, Iran

The night view from the Sio-Seh Pole bridge is indeed something you have to experience. During the night this usually gets a off tourist zone and get full with young people that use the place to interact with each other, lovers come to visit away from public eyes etc…

As you can see on the photo lots of action is going on, people walk along the river bank, some tea and xixa houses are also located in the bottom part of the bridge.

Sio-Seh Pole Bridge by night, Esfahan Iran

Sio-Seh Pole means thirty three arches, and was also called Allahverdikhan Pol, after the architect who built it in 1600. The bridge is about 300 meters in length and makes the perfect attraction for Irani local young people that choose this place to walk and look at each other. This is the lovers point where girls come very well dressed to look at boys and boys come also well dressed to look at girls.