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Updated: August 11, 2026

By repairing to the artillery square, or to the short street between the square and the palace front, on a moonlight night, one can experience a new sense of nature's loveliness; the soft, chastening light of the Persian moon converts the gaudy gates, the dead mud-walls, the spraggling trees, and the background of snowy mountains nine miles away, into a picture that will photograph itself on one's memory forever.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 : From San Francisco to Teheran