Eram Garden (, ''Bāgh-e Eram'') is a historic Persian garden in

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. The garden, and the building within it, are located at the northern shore of the Khoshk River in the

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History

The origins of the garden may go back to the 12th century, during the Seljuk era, when a garden later called Bagh-e Shah probably existed on this site up to the 18th century. This may have influenced the overall layout of the current garden. The current garden and its pavilions were designed and built in the 19th century, during the

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. The garden was established in 1824 by Muhammad Qoli Khan Ilkhani, the chief of the Qashqa'i tribe. At this time, it included a three-story residential pavilion with a front porch supported by two columns. The estate was later sold to Nasir ol-Molk, who commissioned the architect Muhammad Hasan (the same architect who worked on the

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) to rebuild the pavilion in its current form between 1875 and 1897. Today, Eram Garden is part of the Shiraz Botanical Garden of

Shiraz University Shiraz University ( ''Dāneshgāh-e-Shirāz'', 1979 revolution, formerly known as Pahlavi dynasty, Pahlavi University دانشگاه پهلوی ''Dāneshgāh-e Pahlavi'') is a public university located in Shiraz, Fars province, Fars, Iran, establ ...

. It is open to the public as a historic landscape garden. They are a

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at Eram Garden

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External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20140922071450/http://www.eramgarden.org/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20131219025742/http://eramgarden.shirazu.ac.ir/ * Iran Tourism Center
Eram garden
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