Persian gardens

The Persian Garden
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Eram Garden in Shiraz
LocationIran
Includes
  1. Ancient Garden of Pasargadae
  2. Bagh-e Eram
  3. Bagh-e Chehel Sotun
  4. Bagh-e Fin
  5. Bagh-e Abas Abad
  6. Bagh-e Shahzadeh
  7. Bagh-e Dolat Abad
  8. Bagh-e Pahlavanpur
  9. Bagh-e Akbariyeh
CriteriaCultural: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi)
Reference1372
Inscription2011 (35th Session)
Area716.35 ha (2.7658 sq mi)
Buffer zone9,740.02 ha (37.6064 sq mi)

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.

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