Baghe Delgosha

In southern entrance of Tang-e-Sa'di in Shiraz, and beneath Nodar castle, there is a large garden which is known as Delgosha. The garden is composed of a very large ground area located alongside the Boustan avenue which leads to the tomb of Sa'di. The walls of the garden is made of mud but the entrance portel is made of clay brick. From the entrance of the garden to the building which is located in the center of the garden there is a waterfont and a cement street. Four streets have been constructed round the building leding to the walls of the garden. On the sids of some of these streets there are cypress and pine trees. Orange, palm and walnut trees have been planted in other parts of the garden. There is a large pond right in front of the building. This building has been erected on a platform and the lower part of the walls is covered with plain stone. The building inside the garden comes in three stories and the portal is decorated with glaze tiling. The doors of some of the rooms are quite old. There is an octagonal structure on the first floor in the center of which is located a pond covered with blue tiles. The ceiling of the building is a simple dome in the middle of which there is a vent. There are four royal rooms with four angels on the sides of the octagonal structure Bagh e Delgosha lying to the northeast of the main avenue, the Garden of Heart's ease may date to the 11th century Seljuk period. It was restored by Karim Khan Zand, but came into the possession of a member of the Ghavam ol Molk family (now known as the Ghavam - Shirazi) in 1845, who used the bagh e Delgosha as a winter residence. A central water channel leads to a 19th century pavilion, flanked by orange trees, pomegranates, and date palms, bushes of double yellow jasmine, walnuts trees and weeping mulberries.