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Saveh Pomegranate Festival in Saveh
The Saveh Pomegranate Festival celebrates the autumn harvest in one of Iran's most productive pomegranate-growing regions, where orchards around the Markazi province city supply fruit prized across the country. The event centers on harvest displays, fresh and processed pomegranate products, and orchard visits during peak season.
Saveh, a city in Iran's Markazi province southwest of Tehran, carries a layered history: medieval travelers and geographers noted it for ceramics and its position on trade routes linking Persia's interior to the wider silk trade network, and it later became associated with a substantial Jewish community whose presence is recorded across centuries of Persian history.