TEHRAN —A national festival dedicated to olive and its products is scheduled to be held in Tarom county of Zanjan province on November 10 and 11, Tarom’s tourism chief has said.

The festival aims at introducing the region’s olive to the country as well as promoting the county’s tourism capacities, Zahra Jafari explained on Tuesday.

Exhibitions of local food, traditional clothes, and music performances will also be held on the sidelines of the festival, the official added.

Zanjan is one of the cities founded by Sassanid King Ardashir I (180-242 CE). The province makes a base for wider explorations with the architectural wonder of Soltaniyeh, the subterranean delights of the Katale-Khor caves, colorful mountains, and the UNESCO-registered Takht-e Soleiman ruins nearby.

The first well-documented evidence of human habitation on the Iranian plateau is found in deposits from several excavated cave and rock-shelter sites in the Zagros Mountains, which dates back to Middle Paleolithic or Mousterian times (c. 100,000 BC).

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