Dowlat Abad Garden

When you travel to Yazd, you will visit many gardens that surrounded by desert. Among all gardens of the city, the Dowlat Abad Garden is another thing.

Yazd, the city of wind catchers (Badgir), the maze of alleys that lead you to astonishing adobe houses, hosts a beautiful garden in the heart of the desert land.

The Dowlat Abad Garden is a memorial garden from Afshariyeh and Zandieh periods in the heart of the city of Yazd, built in 1160 AH by the Great Khan of Yazd, which was called Mohammad Taqi Khan Bafghi. Mohammad Taqi Khan perforated a 65-km-long Qanat to transport water from Mehriz to the current location of the Dolat Abad Garden. In the past, Qanat was an old system of collecting water to irrigate and drink. The garden, which is about 260 years old, has been the residence of Shahrokh Mirza and Karim Khan Zand, the rulers of Yazd.

The Dowlat Abad Garden is a collection of several mansions, including: wind catcher mansion, mirror hall mansion, Behesht Aeen, entrance mansion, Harem mansion, Tehran mansion, servant’s mansion, octagon court, water storage, carriage house, summer, and winter stables, Qanat and also there are plenty of ponds in the garden.

The main entrance of the garden is called Behesht Aeen. In the past, government ceremonies and ritual ceremonies held in the Behesht Aeen.

See the Tallest Wind Catcher of the World at Dowlat Abad Garden

What distinguishing feature of this garden among Iranian gardens, is its high wind catcher. This wind catcher with a height of 33 meters is the tallest one in the world. A wind catcher is an old Persian architecture element to create natural air-conditioning in buildings.

Another feature of this wind catcher is the octagonal shape of its building, which leads wind flow from any direction into the mansion. On the other hand, there is a pond located under the internal deflector of this wind catcher to cool down the mansion interior space. By combining wind and water in the pools of this mansion, cool air is transferred from the wind catcher to the Shah Neshin (Shah Neshin is the element of Islamic architecture which has three or five doors with a different height from the other rooms. Due to the Sun radiation, Shah-Neshin situated in the building.) and halls. In this regard, this mansion is also called the summer mansion.

The materials used in the construction of the Dowlat Abad Garden are mostly marble stones, collected from Maragheh in the northwest of Iran.

The Gardens

The Dowlat Abad Garden is divided into two sections: Inner garden and outer garden. The main trees of the Dowlat Abad Garden are two pine tree rows and one row of cedar trees planted on both sides of the main garden path. Also, the two main courtyards are symmetrically planted on both sides of the garden. The garden plan consists of two rectangles with different dimensions, which are perpendicular to each other.

What is the best time to go?
 

The best time to travel to Yazd in terms of weather is from early March to early April, when the weather is quite mild, with an average temperature of around 16 degrees Celsius. In these months the temperature does not exceed 25 ° C.

Getting there?
 

The main entrance gate of this garden located on the streets of Shahid Rajaee Shahr, Yazd. Another entrance gate located on Dowlatabad Boulevard, which has no entrance to the public and is almost in the restoration.

Most tourist attractions in Yazd are very close to each other and can be reached with a 10-minute walk. If you want to call a taxi, ring number 1828 or 1838 to request a car. It is also possible to request a taxi from Snap.