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City in Fars province, Iran

Seyyedān

Seyyedan is a city in, and the capital of, Seyyedan District of Marvdasht County, Fars province, Iran.

Seyyedān
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The place

Seyyedan is a city in, and the capital of, Seyyedan District of Marvdasht County, Fars province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Khafrak-e Olya Rural District.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Seyyedān

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.

  1. 01
    Istakhr

    Istakhr was an ancient city in Fars province, 5 kilometres north of Persepolis in southwestern Iran. It flourished as the capital of the Persian Frataraka governors and Kings of Persis from the third century BC to the early 3rd century AD. It reached its apex under the Sasanian Empire, and was the hometown of the Sasanian dynasty.

    9.3 km · An ancient city in Fars Province, Iran, a monument registered in the National Monuments List of Iran · Wikipedia

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Getting to Seyyedān

Airports
Shiraz Shahid Dastghaib (SYZ), 65 km
  • Shiraz → Seyyedān
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Isfahan → Seyyedān
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Kerman → Seyyedān
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Seyyedān

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 Seyyedān. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe closest city reachable by public bus is Marvdasht, 14 km away from Persepolis, from there one needs to charter a taxi to the site.
  • Get inMinibuses (45000 rials) or a shared taxi (80000 rials) going to Marvdasht can be found at Ali Ibn Hamze Terminal in Shiraz.

From Wikivoyage: Persepolis, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,290 km
  2. 02
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    1,351 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,457 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    1,538 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,552 km

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Around it

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