Azerbaijan comprises of three provinces: Ardebil, Western Azerbaijan, and Eastern Azerbaijan. 

 Ardebil Province

Ardebil

Ardebil (center of province) stands about 60km from the Caspian Sea. It is located on an open plain 1,400m above sea level, just east of Mount Sabalan ( 4,811m ).

The complex of Shiekh Safi-ad-Din-e-Ardebili is an impressive ancient monument, comprising: the mausoleums, Chini Khaneh (house of chinaware), a mosque, Jannat Sara (house of paradise), Khanaqah (house of Dervishes), Cheragh Khaneh (place where devotees shut themselves up during the forty days of lent).

Hot springs and mineral springs are numerous in this province, the most important of which is in Sar’eyn. The nine hot and mineral springs with medicinal qualities and the center of hydrotherapy are significant tourist attractions in the area.

Handicrafts, such as carpet weaving, Jajim (a fine carpet made of wool or cotton) and Gelim (a rug mad of goats’ hair) weaving and pottery also play a main role in the economy of the province.

Eastern Azerbaijan Province

Tabriz

Tabriz (center of province) is built at an altitude of 1,400 meters in a valley to the north of the beautiful Mount Sahand (3,707m). Tabriz has mild summers which makes it an ideal summer vacation spot. The winters are cold, the temperature drops often below –20C, and snow covered mountains of Tabriz are perfect for the lovers of Winter sports.

With a rich history, Tabriz used to house many historical monuments. Unfortunately, many of which were destroyed in repeated invasions and attacks, negligence of the ruling governments, as well natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. Some of the monuments are unrivalled masterpieces of architecture.

Ark or Citadel of Tabriz: It is the impressive remainder of a great and imposing building in the town. The Ark, a huge and crumbling brick citadel, is a notable landmark that was built in the early 14^th.century on the site of a massive mosque which collapsed over 500 years ago.

Costitution House: Located next to the Tabriz grand bazaar. During the years which led to the Constitutional Revolution and afterwards, the house was used as the gathering place of the leaders, activists, and the sympathizers of the movement.

Blue Mosque: (or Masjid-e-Kabud) on the north side of town, is a 15Th-century structure destroyed partially by one of Tabriz’s recurrent earthquakes.

King Hassan Mosque: It was built in the 15th.century.

Sadeqiyeh Mosque: It is located on the northern part of the main bazaar. The construction of the mosque was completed in 1657.

Golestan gardens: It is one of the main recreation centers of the city and covers an area of 53,000 square meters.

El Goli: A pleasant hillside garden and park around an artificial lake to the area of 54,675 square meters. El Goli is so lovely a place that it deserves an illustration. A hill in the eastern side of the park leads down to the pool with steps, and a fountain from top of the hill flows down to the pool. In the center of the pool there is a grand hexagonal building.

Azerbaijan Museum: It consists of three main halls in which historical articles, costumes of various tribes of Iran, works of renowned calligraphers, as well as a collection of pictures, tracts, declarations, documents, and personal articles of the leaders of the Constitutional Revolution are on display.

Bazaar: Strolling in the centre of Tabriz, one is reminded very forcibly that it is a commercial city: one cannot miss its very large and 15th.century covered bazaar. It is already much diminished in its variety of goods, but still a great place for getting hopelessly lost amid its dusty architectural splendors.

Churches: From the earliest days of Christianity there has been a sizeable Armenian community in Tabriz, and the city boasts a number of churches, including one mentioned by Marco Polo on his trips. Tabriz , presently, has six churches, the most important of which are: Saint Serkis Church, built in 1845; probably the most interesting and the oldest but substantially rebuilt Church of St. Mary which was completed in 1785; Able Mary Church which was built in 1910.

Western Azerbaijan Province

The West Azerbaijan province is a part of the ancient civilization of Iran.

There are many historical castles, hundreds of antique hills and archeological objects which all reflect region’s long history.

Existence of mosques, churches and ruined fire-temples all indicate its religious evolution along the history.

 Orumyeh

Orumyeh city ( the center of province) is located 18 km west of Orumyeh Lake in a luxuriant plain.

The weather in Orumyeh is cold in winters and moderate in the summer. Some historians believe that Orumyeh is the birth place of Zoroaster, the most famous Persian prophet in the 3rd century AH.

The most important historical and eye-pleasing places are as follows:
Orumyeh lake and its coast for recreation and water therapy which is registered as Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO, beautiful islands which are valuable for being habitats of different species of wildlife.

Several mineral and hot water springs and caves with historical value.
Some castles with historical and architectural values, Old Bazaar of Orumyeh, Archeological and Natural History Museum, Mir Davood cave,

Sardar and Orumyeh minaret.

Khoy

Khoy means "salt" and it was named so, because of the salt mines of the region. The first dwellers of it were Median tribes. According to existing historical documents, it had been a very important place as the result of being passed by a branch of famous Silk-Road which linked west to east.

The most famous historic and natural sites of Khoy are as follows:
Several mineral water springs with recreational and water therapy values,
Bastam and Bolourabad historical castles, Khatoun old bridge, Old stone gate of the city, Old bazaar, Several old mosques, Shams Tabrisi Minaret, and Ancient churches.

 Makoo

It is located on a mountainous region with the height of 1,294 meters from see level providing the temperate climate. Makoo, with a semi-circle shape, is situated on the slopes of a mountain which has enclosed the city as an umbrella. This city was not more than a castle in the beginning of Shah Abbas the First’s reign .