Bagh-e Naranjestan

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    Lotfali Khan St, city centre
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Lonely Planet review

Bagh-e Naranjestan is Shiraz's smallest garden and is famous as the setting for the opulently decorated Naranjestan-e Ghavam pavilion, built between 1879 and 1886, as part of a complex owned by one of Shiraz's wealthiest Qajar-era families. The pavilion's mirrored entrance hall opens onto rooms covered in a breathtaking combination of intricate tiles, inlaid wooden panels and stained-glass windows.

Ceilings in the upstairs rooms are particularly interesting, with the beams painted with European-style motifs, including Alpine churches and busty German frauleins.

The gardens are in a walled compound 400m south of the Nasir ol-Molk Mosque.