APADANA TRAVEL, a dynamic travel company with high-quality reputation, founded in 2013 with the passion of providing first-class travel service to the well-deserved Iranian community in the Metro Vancouver area. During the past 6 years, our service expanded not only to the other valuable communities in the Metro Vancouver area, but also to the other cities in Canada. Our well-experienced and customer-focused experts. with over 25 years’ experience in the travel industry, makes APADANA TRAVEL one of the top 10 performing travel agencies in the Metro Vancouver area.
Our mission is to deliver excellent customer service along with creative ideas for arranging any trip while providing great value. Most importantly of all, to create a personal, individual, and ongoing relationship with our valued and respected customers.
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As a word, “apadāna” used to designate a hypostyle hall, i.e., a palace or audience hall of stone construction with columns. Hypostyle hall, in architecture, is an interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns. The word means literally “under pillars”. The Old Persian term, “APADANA” standing for “unprotected”, refers to the fact that the roofed- shaped structure is open to the outside elements on one of its four sides, and thus ‘unprotected’ / exposed to the natural elements. This is exactly what the Apadana palace has: open (columned) porch on three sides—a unique feature among all palace buildings at Persepolis. The Apadana or Audience Hall of Persepolis belongs to the oldest building phase of the palace complex, the grand design by its founder, king Darius I the Great (522-486). In this large hall, the great king received the tributes from all the subjects in the Achaemenid Empire and gave presents in return. The Hall, the largest and probably most beautiful of the buildings at Persepolis, could accommodate hundreds of people. The seventy-two columns which supported the roof were twenty-five meters high. Today, only thirteen columns are standing. The Apadana of Persepolis is one of the magnificent places to visit in Iran.