about Eram Garden in
Fars province
BAGH-E ERAM, a famous and beautiful garden at Shiraz. Its site
close to the embankment of the Rudkhana-ye Kushk was formerly on
the northwestern fringe of the city but is now well inside the
greatly expanded urban area.
The present garden and mansion are not very old but, like the
other famous gardens of Shiraz, may well have replaced an
earlier foundation. D. N. Wilber surmised that its antecedent
may have been the Bag-e Shah mentioned in accounts o seed
(Fasa`i, II, p. 164). Forsat Shirazi, a contemporary of Fasa`i,
praised the Bag-e Eram for its beautiful flowers, refreshing
air, tall cypresses (a stately, beautiful cypress tree there
known as sarv-e naz has long been a major tourist attraction),
fragrant myrtles, flowing wa of the constructional work and
praises of the then owner Nasir-al-Molk
After the coup detat of 1332 5./1953 and the exile of the Qashqa`i brothers, who in the meantime had regained ownership of the Bag-e Eram, the government confiscated the garden and later on gave it to Pahlavi University now the University of Shiraz
ادامه مطلب ...About Khaju Bridge in
Esfahan province
The Bridge of Khaju or pole-i-Khaju, the most famous of Isfahan
bridges, has roused the admiration of travelers since the 17th
century.
There was an earlier bridge across the river at the same spot,
near the district of Khaju on the old Shiraz road; this was
probably built in the reign of Timurian sovereign, one of the
successors of Tamerlane (15th century). Shah Abbas II built the
present structure round about 1650. It has 23 arch and are 436
feet long and 39 feet wide. It is also a dam; sluice gates
between the piers closed the canals, raising the water level
upstream so that large reserves could be collected for
irrigating the surrounding gardens.
With its two stories of arcades with intersecting arches, its
stone steps downstream with the water cascading over them, and
its two large pavilions in the center- (The Prince` Parlors)-
this bridge is a masterpiece of balance and harmony
The outer side of the arcades is decorated with richly colored tiles, and the interior of the pavilions with more recent paintings
Shah Abbas the second of the Safavid dynasty on the ruins of
Hassan Baik Bridge in 1650 or 1655.The bridge has been known
with a variety of titles including Pol-e-Shahi, Pol-e-Khaju,
Pol-e-Baba Rokneddin, and Pol-e-Gabrha built this bridge. The
bridge is 105 meters long and 14 meters wide.
The pass way of the bridge is 7.5 meters wide, made of bricks
and stones with 21 larger and 26 smaller inlet and outlet
channels. The pieces of stone used in this bridge are over 2
meters long and the distance between every channel and the
ceiling base is 20 meters. The existing inscriptions suggest
that the bridge was repaired in 1873
...YES! IRAN IS BEAUTIFUL