About Tabas

Tabas is located in central Iran, 950 kilometers southeast of Tehran, in Yazd Province. Formerly it was part of the Khorasan province. It is a desert city with lots of date and citrus trees. It has a 300 years old public garden, (Baghe-golshan) and the shrine of Ali ar-Ridha's brother, Hosein-Ibn-Mousa-Alkazem who is buried there. Tabas has two universities. The city has hot summers and people rarely see a winter snowfall.

The people of Tabas speak original Farsi that according to some experts is the way Persian people spoke centuries ago. The dialect sounds different from the original Farsi but is it understood by everybody in Iran