Shiraz Free Tour

Besides Day Tours of Iran, we also offer Shiraz free Tours for individuals, private groups and families. Our professional guides are powered by an enthusiastic passion for Shiraz. Showing you the beauty of Shiraz is enjoyable for them, and they would love to take you around town for free. After all, you are a guest here! We are sure you will enjoy the tour as you get to know our city as well as our natives. Uppersia free tour of Shiraz covers some of the top Shiraz attractions, including -Shahcheragh shrine, bakeries, Astaneh Shrine, Armenian Church and Dervishes temple. Nazanin, a qualified tour guide of Uppersia team accompanied our guests from French for this free tour.

Our tour guide accompanied the guests from French for Shiraz free tour

Shah Cheragh Holy Shrine in Shiraz, Iran

If you plan on travelling around Iran, it's not hard to visit many of the Shiraz’ top sites during your journey. Shiraz takes pride in being a cultural capital of Iran .It is home to some captivating ancient monuments, religious places, historical attractions, fabulous gardens and yummiest places to eat. The graves of the two saint poets, hafiz and Saadi, and the holy Shah-e-Cheragh shrine, the son of the 7th Shiite Imam, make Shiraz a pilgrimage site for Iranians. The burial place of Mir Ahmad son of Musa and brother of Imam Reza, Known as Shah Cheragh, is the 8th saint in Shiite Islam. The monument has been discovered in 11th century and a shrine was built over it afterwards. The shrine was repaired during Safavid dynasty once but the major repairs was after destructive earthquakes in Qajar period. Visiting the shrine gives you serene and peaceful feeling. The multicolored reflections from mirror tiles inside the tomb is spectacular. Around the yard, several rooms with brilliant tiled works can be seen. Pillars and its flat roofs’ of shrine are made up of the exquisite wood and inlaid works .Also there are a valuable museum and library  inside a shrine. You don't need to have faith to be drawn to this shrine. Popular for its spiritual and cultural value, our travelers from China visited Shah Cheragh and Mrs. Maryam Jamshidi, Uppersia’s professional tour guide, accompanied them.

travelers from China visited Shah Cheragh

Discover the Unknown Saint Mary Church in Shiraz

Shiraz, a picturesque four season and culturally rich city, always has something new to offer. For history enthusiasts, the attractions that shouldn’t be missed is probably an important issue on the forefront of their minds. Alongside, the religious buildings of Muslims, other religious edifices, including Temples, churches, and synagogues were also constructed, for minorities. The Church of Saint  Mary, the Christian Church of Shiraz, is one of that sacred structures located in one of the old neighborhoods of Shiraz at the end of the Armenian parish and near the Black Stone (Sange sia) district. One of the important points of the church's architecture is its non-ornamented quadrangle exterior, in which there is no evidence of the church's existence, but from the inside of the hall the church is dome-shaped.The paintings of the ceiling are drawn with a unique angel that cause the visitors to feel that they are standing under a dome, while the ceiling is completely flat!

The prayer hall of the church is one of the oldest and most artistically constructed buildings of the seventeenth century, which was made by the Christian and Muslim architectures of Shiraz.

By reserving a room in Forough boutique hotel or its sister hostel, BB hostel, in the heart of original old Shiraz you can kill two birds with one stone and visit both mesmerizing Shah cheraq, Muslim's holy shrine,and sacred Saint  Mary church where can be reached by only 10 minutes walking.

Unknown Saint Mary Church in Shiraz