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The Iranian Gardens Registered with UNESCO
The Iranian Gardens Registered with UNESCO
Everything that is registered with UNESCO has some value. It can be either a historical site or a monument; it can be tangible or intangible. Many things are listed and registered by UNESCO, but this time it is a bit different. It is not a monument or a historical site.
This time it is about the Iranian gardens that UNESCO registers. Iran has many things that are registered on UNESCO's list. The gardens are beautiful and unique. Some of them are either Royal gardens or even palace complexes.
Mainly in Pasargad, a famous Iranian garden built with unique features that have been attracting everyone and hence are even registered on UNESCO's list. To be precise, the bagh e shahi, which is in Pasargad, is also very important.
The garden is even more attractive and mainly due to the fact that the Cyrus tomb is also located in the middle of the garden. Apart from this fantastic garden, there are about eight more gardens that are registered on UNESCO's list and play a vital role.
So carefully read till the end to understand more about the gardens registered and some details about it. So bear with us and read till the end.
The Gardens Worth Mentioning
The Shiraz Eram Garden
One of the most beautiful gardens that are located in one of the most beautiful cities in Iran, Shiraz.
The garden is so magnificent that it has been exciting since the eras of Seljuk. By the end of the Zandiyeh period, the Eram garden mainly had the Qashqai clans for about seventy-five years.
Today the Eram garden plays a significant role and is still under the Shiraz university and is open to all and belongs to all.
The Chehel sotun Garden
Among the gardens that are registered on UNESCO's list is the Chehel sotun garden in Isfahan. It was built during the era of Shah Abbas II as an entertainment spot for his guests.
The best part about this garden is its name. Chehel sotun means forthy pillars. The more exciting part is that Chehel sotun does not have forthy pillars. It has only twenty pillars. But the reflection of the twenty pillars seen in the water makes it look like forthy pillars, and hence the name was kept as Chehel sotun garden.
On a final note, it should be mentioned that Chehel sotun was built back in the year 1057 AH. Still, it is fantastic and worth visiting. Once you visit the garden, you will see its beauty and understand the reason why it is even mentioned on UNESCO's list.
Fin Kashan Garden
The third one on the list of the best gardens. The fin garden, or the fin bath in Kashan, is found about 6 km in the southern part of the city of Kashan. Being a great city that has many historical sites, it has a great garden as well. In Kashan, apart from all these historical sites and monuments, the water supply and the arrangements play a vital role and are special.
Some of the gardens in Iran are suffering from irrigation processes, but the fin garden never had such an issue. When you visit the beautiful city of Kashan, you will be able to reach the fin garden fell Amirkabir street via public transport. Go ahead and enjoy the journey and the garden together.
The Abbas Abad Garden in Mazandaran
Another great garden in another great city. The great Abbas Abad garden is placed about 9 km in the southern part of Bushehr. The garden has a great slope that lies from South to North.
The Abbas Abad garden is considered to be a great complex that has the Abbas Abad dam, dam lakes, and even reservoirs. Also, a garden filled with flowers, a palace, and a bathhouse. The garden also has great water energy that has been used greatly by Safavid engineers.
The Shazdeh Mahan Garden
This gorgeous garden can be found in the province of Kerman.
The garden is a fantastic example of the Iranian bed garden that is built with the most excellent natural conditions. You will find this garden near the tomb of Shah Nematullah Vali. There is something great about this garden, and that is its tree plantation. It is very appropriate, and the plans create a unique shade and coloring and vary in different seasons.
The gorgeous Shazdeh Mahan garden has a two-floor residential palace, just like other gardens, along with a pool with fountains as water plays a vital role in the history and culture of Iranians, and finally, the lush green trees that make the garden more attractive.
The Dolat Abad Garden
Another great and worth-mentioning garden in Iran that has been recorded in UNESCO's World Heritage Site is the Dolat Abad garden.
The garden is mainly well known for its long pools, the style that is used in its architecture, the two-floor pavilions, and last but not least, the plantation and the vast gardens. The beauty of this garden is out of the world and has been welcoming many visitors to it for years.
There is an interesting fact in the Dolat Abad garden, and that is about its building which was ordered to be made by Mohammed Taqi Khan. He desired the location of the garden to be exactly on the Qanat. Sounds interesting.
The Mehriz Pahvalanpour Garden
The garden is as old as the era of Qajars. It has an entrance complex which is very attractive, a pavilion, a building for the caretakers, a kitchen, and finally, a bathroom.
It has been stated that the Mehriz Pahvalanpour garden has been decorated with the Zandy style and architecture and architecture.
There is water that passes from the Pahvalanpour garden, which starts from Hassan Abad Qanat. On a final note, it should be added that the garden plays an important role in the tourism industry as well.
The Akbarieh Garden
The garden is in Birjand, which is located in the southern part of the city of Khorasan in Iran. Like other gardens we have read about, the Akbarieh garden has also been made using traditional models in Iran known as Chahar Bagh. The garden belongs to the era of the Zand right in the Qajar period.
There are old mansions in this garden, and the oldest one was built by Heshmat al-Molk. You will find amazingly tall trees in the Akbarieh garden on both sides of it, and as of now, different parts of this beautiful garden are used for varieties of purposes like libraries, museums, and last but not least, archaeology.
It is essential to mention that all the Iranian gardens are beautiful, are major tourist attractions, and have a significant influence on different territories of our grand civilization along with the countries that speak the same language, which is Persian.