Maragheh Observatory, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
3.5 (3 reviews) Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #2 in Maragheh Speciality Museums • Science Museums
Best ever
Very nice place an d I enjoy traveling with my wife. I suggest this place for you to travel around and see this city. Please visit this city.
Address
, Maragheh, Iran, Postal Code: 413.
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Saturday, May 11, 2024, 19:12
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3.5 based on (3 reviews)
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4KrisfromSF 5:00 PM Apr 29, 2019
Come prepared with info
A very clean and well maintained site with a map, but no guide. Inform yourself ahead of time. It would be helpful to go to Ulegh Beg’s observatory in Samarkand to get a sense from the interpretive displays there what this site and the equipment would have looked like. Still, inspiring to be at the place where Copernicus got the models that he used to prove the earth moves around the sun, and that inspired both Ulegh Beg and the maharajah of Jaipur. Good view of the extinct volcano from the hill. Mysterious caves on the hillside have a strong resemblance to the Buddhist cave monastery in Samangan in Afghanistan. Anything is possible, as Hülagü was still a pagan when he died, so possibly there were some Buddhists here too.
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2Mahsa J 5:00 PM May 29, 2017
The place which could be better...
We took a long way to get there and see an ancient place which one time in far past was a great spot in the science, but unfortunately we were alone! No one was there, no guide, or even a guard!
