Key facts
- Location
- Iran
- Includes
- Ancient Garden of Pasargadae , Bagh-e Eram , Bagh-e Chehel Sotun , Bagh-e Fin , Bagh-e Abas Abad , Bagh-e Shahzadeh , Bagh-e Dolat Abad , Bagh-e Pahlavanpur , Bagh-e Akbariyeh
- Criteria
- Cultural: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi)
- Inscription
- 2011 (35th Session )
- Area
- 716.35 ha (2.7658 sq mi)
- Buffer zone
- 9,740.02 ha (37.6064 sq mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
In garden design, Persian garden or Iranian garden (Persian: باغ ایرانی) is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in the Achaemenid Empire. Nine historical gardens, all of them in Iran, have been inscribed in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites as The Persian Garden since 2011.
Concept and etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Persian garden” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.