Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Such is Esfahan's grandeur that it is easy to agree with the famous 16th-century half-
rhyme '
Esfahan nesf-e jahan'
(Esfahan is half the world). Robert Byron, author of the
1937 travelogue
The Road to Oxiana
, was slightly more geographically specific when he
ranked 'Isfahan among those rarer places, like Athens or Rome, which are the common
refreshment of humanity'.
