Dowlatabad Garden

Dowlatabat Garden
UNESCO World Heritage Site
LocationYazd, Iran
CriteriaCultural: (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi)
Reference1372-007
Inscription2011 (35th Session)

Dowlatabad Garden (Persian: باغ دولت آباد) is a historical garden in Yazd, Iran. Its 33.8 meters tall windcatcher is the tallest adobe-made windcatcher in the world. It was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2011, as part of the Persian gardens. It is also listed in UNESCO as a part of the historical city of Yazd in 2017.[1][2][3][4][5]

The garden contains several buildings, such as Talar-e Ayeneh (mirror hall building), frontispiece house, Behesht-Aeen building, Badgir building, Haremsara (women quarters), Tehrani building, servants quarters, courthouse, kitchen (cook house), archway, cistern, Shotorkhane, summer and winter stables and a Qanat.[2][3][6][7]

  1. ^ "Historic City of Yazd". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  2. ^ a b "Dowlatabad Garden: A Garden in Heart of Desert - Tourism news". Tasnim News Agency. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  3. ^ a b https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/1372.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ "35 COM 8B.26 - Decision". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  5. ^ "Bagh-e Dolat Abad, an epitome of Persian Garden". Tehran Times. 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  6. ^ "ایران زیباست؛ باغ "دولت آباد" یزد". ایسنا (in Persian). 2020-05-29. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  7. ^ "باغ جهانی دولت آباد یزد، تلفیقی از ذوق و هنر معماری". ایرنا (in Persian). 2018-03-10. Retrieved 2021-12-05.

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