Urmia Lake
Beautiful Lake Urmia, the largest and most important internal basin lake is a permanent Iranian plateau and the North West Shelf of Azerbaijan is located in the center. The lake, with 4500 to 6000 square kilometers of the world's twentieth Lake area is considered and its depth in different parts of five to sixteen meters. Lake water is salty, and although the area is cold but not freeze in winter never closes.
Lake water and mud due to abundant minerals including calcium, magnesium, sodium, and disinfection and curative treatment for cutaneous and bone diseases and rheumatism and sciatica fixes are prescribed.
In the years following World War II Red Cross Hospital, which opened in Tehran, the Mud Lake Beach used to treat patients. Weather along Lake Radio having some wet sand from the lake water is played, is highly teaser.
Salinity due to abundant water and salts there large, fish and other aquatic life in lakes are not the only living lake, a kind of shrimp and crab to the length of two centimeters called "Arte Myasalyna" and a kind of algae called blue "Syanvfy sauce" that is too much at the bottom of the lake where the rocks grow food and water birds, especially ducks to the supply.
Most valuable sign of birds to life in the lake are considered. Flight mass flamingos, Plykan, the Kakaie Tynjh and in the most spectacular lake, the exquisite nature of Iran. In spring and summer, the largest lake area fertility of some birds, including flamingo, white Plykan, Tynjh, Kakaie silver and pink and is Knjh tip.
In addition to the lake margins, and especially the southern margin Arha and freshwater wetlands there. The margins of water springs or rivers, and provide the same wetlands, such as hosting another group of birds, Ghazpa gray, green head, white ducks and ducks are Srhnayy.
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Marmisho Natural lake
This natural lake with an area of five acres in forty-five miles West of Urmia city, the surrounding mountains is the border of Iran and Turkey. Lake water from natural springs and descending climate comes whereabouts types of fish including salmon is. Also a very good place for this lake fishing and leisure tourists and nature lovers.
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Urmia Museum
Urmia Museum in the city streets are paradise. The museum was built in 1346 and SB Great Hall for an archaeological and historical objects in different historical periods, hall is a small museum that is dedicated to anthropology. In the Hall during ceremonies, film and slides will be displayed. Urmia Museum a collection of books that most of the precious manuscripts of holy Quran and Islamic religious books, is maintained. Also objects of pre-history courses, as well as Islamic and historic objects related to national and Decorative Arts Ethnology, crafts and ... The museum also is seen.
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Forest Park
Sheikhtapeh Forest Park, with an area of 44 hectares in the southeastern city of Urmia on the heights overlooking the ancient hill in the vicinity of the hill is located in Sheikh. The hills among ancient hills belong to the period before the Medes Zoroastrian religion is prevalent today because of construction work of the urban left. The main feature of the seven hills there layers to different historical periods of the containers and objects relating to each period specified. The layers in these hills have a similar situation.