Rasht
Rasht is a city in the Central District of Rasht County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of the province, the county, and the district.
Rasht is a city in the Central District of Rasht County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of the province, the county, and the district. Known as the "City of Silver Rain", Rasht has, throughout Iran’s history, served as a border city, earning the historical nickname "Dār al-Marz Rasht" or "Rasht on the Border". With a population of 679,995 in 2016, it is the most populous city in northern Iran.
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Worth seeing in and around Rasht
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Haj Samad Khan Mosque
The Hajj Samad Khan Mosque is a mosque, located in Saadi Street, Rasht, in the province of Gilan, Iran. The mosque was completed in the Qajar era.
1.2 km · Iranian Mosque · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
The Shahrdari is Rasht's most identifiable landmark, its colonial style tempered by a token mini-dome topping a distinctive whitewashed tower. It looks great when floodlit at night. Rasht Museum is small, but well presented in a 1930s house. Its mannequin displays illustrate Gilaki lifestyle, amid a selection of 3000-year-old terracotta riton drinking horns in the shape of bulls, rams and deer.
- 01Hajj Samad Khan Mosque
Iran National Tea Museum, 52W8+GJC, Lahijan,.
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Things to do
Firstly you must see the Golsar area in the north of the city. It's the most modernized section of the city, you can find the youth roaming over there, beautiful shops and restaurants. You find yourself in a European country in the middle of an Asian civilization. Golsar, pronounced golsâr (Persian: گلسار), is a suburb of Rasht.
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Where to eat
Rasht and the surrounding towns of the Caspian province are a great place to try still-warm, walnut-filled koloocheh cookies. Look for stores selling cookies with round patterns embossed on them (they say the best ones are sold in nearby Fuman). You can buy some kind of dooghs, the traditional drink of the area. Sara is the most famous doogh in Iran. A traditional breakfast is cooked cow head.
- 01Shekam Ol-Molouk Restaurant
Manzarieh Boulevard (inside Kadus Grand Hotel),.
- 02Vahid Restaurant
This one is pretty neat given that it's on a rooftop terrace of a fairly high building, giving you ample views.
- 03Razeghi Restaurant
A good place to try local dishes, like kalle pasche.
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Getting to Rasht
- Airports
- Payam (PYK), 200 km · Mehrabad (THR), 234 km · Imam Khomeini (IKA), 250 km
- Stations
- Rasht Airport, 5.9 km
- Tehran → Rasht240 km · quickest by road, 5h 28m · $26–36
- Karaj → Rasht204 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · $23–31
- Tabriz → Rasht304 km · quickest by road, 7h 47m · $39–55
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Rasht
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Rasht. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can easily find shared taxis to city center, it costs around 30,000 rials.
- Get inShared taxis (Savaris) plow the Caspian coast, so getting to Rasht from anywhere in that area is easy.
- Get inA good choice for a trip from Tehran would be a shared taxi or bus to Chalus, a spectacular route through the Alborz mountains and then a savari from Chalus to Rasht.
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