Golestan Palace

Golestan Palace

Golestān Palace (Persian: کاخ گلستان‎) pronounced "Kakheh Golestān" is the former royal Qajar complex in Iran's capital city.

The oldest of the historic monuments in Tehran, the Golestan Palace (also Gulistan Palace) (The Rose Garden Palace) belongs to a group of royal buildings that were once enclosed within the mud-thatched walls of Tehran’s Historic Arg (citadel).

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