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Eram Garden is a famous historic Persian garden in Shiraz, Iran. The tradition and style of garden design represented by Persian gardens or Iranian gardens (Persian: باغ ایرانی) is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in the Achaemenid Empire. Humayun's Tomb and the Taj Mahal have some of the largest Persian gardens in the world ...
The archaeological site covers 1.6 square kilometres (0.62 sq mi) and includes a structure commonly believed to be the mausoleum of Cyrus, the fortress of Toll-e Takht sitting on top of a nearby hill, and the remains of two royal palaces and gardens. Pasargadae Persian Gardens provide the earliest known example of the Persian chahar bagh, or ...
The charbagh at the Tomb of Jahangir in Lahore, Pakistan. A charbagh or chaharbagh (Persian: چهارباغ, romanized: chahārbāgh, lit. 'four gardens'; Hindi: चारबाग़ chārbāgh, Urdu: چار باغ chār bāgh, Bengali: চারবাঘ) is a Persian and Indo-Persian quadrilateral garden with a layout of four gardens traditionally separated by waterways, together ...
June 23, 1980. Untermyer Park and Gardens is a historic 43-acre (17 ha) city public park, located in Yonkers, New York in Westchester County, just north of New York City. The park is a remnant of Samuel Untermyer 's 150-acre (61 ha) estate "Greystone". Situated on the steep land arising from the eastern bank of the Hudson River to the bluff on ...
The first three sites in Iran, Meidan Naghshe Jahan, Isfahan, Persepolis and Tchogha Zanbil, were inscribed on the list at the 3rd Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Cairo and Luxor, Egypt in 1979. [ 3 ] They remained the Islamic Republic's only listed properties until 2003, when Takht-e Soleyman was added to the list. [ 4 ]
The Golestan Palace (Persian: کاخ گلستان, Kākh-e Golestān), also transliterated as the Gulistan Palace[ 1 ] and sometimes translated as the Rose Garden Palace from Persian language, [ 1 ][ 2 ] was built in the 16th century, renovated in the 18th century and finally rebuilt in 1865. It is the former official royal Qajar complex in Tehran.
Location of Fin Garden in Iran. Drawing by Pascal Coste. Fin Garden (Persian: باغ فینBagh-e Fin) is a historical Persian garden located in Kashan, Iran. It contains Kashan's Fin Bath, where Amir Kabir, the Qajarid chancellor, was murdered by an assassin sent by King Nasereddin Shah in 1852. Completed in 1590, the Fin Garden is the oldest ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) ... Persian gardens in Pakistan (1 C, 6 P) S.