The ‘City of Poets’ is a fitting nickname for this gorgeous canvas of Persian culture. With its intoxicating combinations of colour, exquisite gardens and famous ruins including Persepolis, Shiraz stirs the music residing within you. The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque’s intricate mosaics of coloured glass and tiles astound the visual imagination, and the Qavam House’s lush gardens burst into vivid hues during the springtime, redefining your notions of luxury and wealth.