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The Flower garden of Isfahan was one of Iran 's great green space projects, which was completed in 1990s in Isfahan. The garden serves multiple purposes. It's a recreational, cultural, educational and research center. The buildings of the garden have Iranian traditional elements. [1]
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 ...
Ghushkhaneh garden. Coordinates: 32°41′03″N 51°41′18.8″E. The Ghushkhaneh garden is a historical garden in Isfahan, Iran. The garden belongs to the era of Abbas I. In the era of Safavids, the ceremony of samite confessing of the King took place here.
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 ]
Between these two focal points of Isfahan’s urban revitalization was a large garden, what is today the Hasht Behesht Gardens. The new, geometric, planned portions of Isfahan would stand out against the old city’s complex street layouts, attracting foreign emissaries and wealthy residents along the Chahar Bagh. [ 33 ]
Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Isfahan. Safavid art is the art of the Iranian Safavid dynasty from 1501 to 1722, encompassing Iran and parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was a high point for Persian miniatures, architecture and also included ceramics, metal, glass, and gardens. The arts of the Safavid period show a far more unitary development ...
Islamic architecture. Top: arches of the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba(Spain); centre: the Jameh Mosquein Isfahan(Iran); bottom: interior side view of the main dome of the Selimiye Mosque(Edirne, Turkey) Islamic architecturecomprises the architectural stylesof buildingsassociated with Islam.
Khwaju Bridge (1650) in Isfahan. To the west of the Maidan-i Shah square was a large palace complex of gardens and pavilions. The most important surviving pavilion, Chehel Sotoun ("Forty Columns"), is dated to 1647 by an inscription, but may have been established earlier. In 1706–7, a deep, broad porch with columns was added to it, giving it ...