Old trees, daffodil fields made national heritage

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list.The Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts announced the inscriptions on Wednesday in a letter to the governor-general
of the province, Mehr reported.Old plane and pistacia trees as well as two daffodil fields were among the properties added to the
prestigious list.In Persian culture and literature, the daffodil symbolizes the eye, usually the eye of the beloved
In poetry, the beloved is likened to the daffodil because of its leafless and green stem, which is hollowed out, straw-like, and curved,
which is associated with humility and dignity.The daffodil is a perennial and grows to about 41 cm in height
Each plant features five or six linear leaves that grow from the bulb and are about 30 cm long
The stem bears one large yellow blossom with a corolla deeply cleft into six lobes and a central bell-shaped crown that is frilled at its
edges
Darius I the Great moved the capital to nearby Persepolis in the late 6th or early 5th century BC.The capital city of Shiraz is home to some
Increasingly, it draws more and more foreign and domestic sightseers flocking to this provincial capital, which was the literary capital of
Persia during the Zand dynasty from 1751 to 1794.Having an opulent tourist circuit with 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites, of which the vast
Hyrcanian Forest and Lut Desert are among the natural properties, Iran seeks to acquire a greater share of the global tourism industry by