Hamedan with a history of more than 27 centuries, the first capital of the Medes, residence of the Achaemenian Kings, was due to it’s location near to ktesiphon the summer resort of the Panthian and Sassanian Dynasty. This beautiful land on the slopes of the Alvand Mountain Range is a land of great heroes and scientists. Cyrous the Great grew up here, Pharaortes was crossed here and after thousands of years the remanins of the mythological walls, surrounding the beautiful town of Daiakku (Deioces), the Shahanshah of the Medes, still can be seen.
Hero dot, mentioning that Daiakku (Deioces) was the founder of Hamadan, states that this median king made ‘Hegmatana’ his capital and by his order, the town with a beautiful palace was enclosed with seven walls, whose battlements were painted in seven different colours white, black, red, blue, orange, silver, and gold.
The name of Hamedan was ‘Egmata’ in ancient hebraeic, in the Greek language ‘Ecbatana or ‘Agmatana’ the Elamites called it ‘Egmtaneh’ and in the famous rock scripture of Bisotun Hamedan is called ‘Hegmatana’.
With the historical and touristic sites on one hand and the beauty, wealth and prosperity of the city on the other hand, a newer-ending stream of tourists, whether Iranians or foreigners enjoy their stay in the first capital of Iran.
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