Afif Abad - Golshan Gardens

Golshan Garden, or Afifabad Garden This garden was one of the achievements of the Qavam family of Shiraz. The first builder was Mirza'Ali Mohammad Khan Qavam in 1863, the second Qavamo'l-molk, who in 1284 A.H. (1867 A.D) began the construction, and bought the Limak stream, which rises in Qasr-e-Qomsheh, about 15 kilometers distant, for irrigating the garden, after which it reaches several districts of Shiraz. This garden is situated at a distance of about two kilometers to the west of Shiraz, south of the Qasro'd-dasht Avenue. With great taste, cypresses, plane trees, firs, pine trees, willows and junipers have been planted there, and a magnificent building, with a spacious tiled lower floor, and a stone dado with carved figures of soldiers in relief, and numerous halls and rooms and verandahs, has been erected there. It houses a beaufiful edifice following a combination of Achaemenian and Qajar architectures. It was used as the ex-king's residence whenever he travelled to Shiraz. The building has two floors with plaster work.The lower floor of the building is now military museum.