Pahlavanpour Garden

🕰️When was it built?

The garden survives from the Qajar period and first belonged to Hasan Mollareza; it then passed to his son-in-law, Ali Pahlavanpour, whose name it bears today. The main pavilion is Qajar, but the winter house was built under Reza Shah. The complex was later bought and restored.

🏛️What was it built for?

The garden had both greenery and fruit trees and buildings for living and working. The pavilion, the winter house, the bathhouse, the kitchen and the servants' work area each had their own role. At the entrance there is also an ethnographic collection of local tools and household objects.

👀What you will see

• The main water channel runs between two rows of huge plane trees, fed by the Hasanabad qanat.
• The pavilion, or sharbat-khaneh, stands on the garden's main axis and has two floors and a mezzanine.
• Water runs through the pavilion, and a hall, a pool room and side rooms make up its interior.
• The winter house is a single-storey building, oriented to suit use in the cold season.
• Pomegranate, almond and persimmon trees among the planes show that the garden was not just ornamental; it also produced fruit.

💡Something interesting

Water does not follow just one path through the garden; two water axes shape its paths and rows of trees. The Hasanabad qanat, which passes through the pavilion, is itself on the World Heritage List.

Good to know before you go