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Wednesday, 11 March 2026 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Gulf States / Golfstaaten
Category/Kategorie: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post In garden design, Persian garden or Iranian garden is a style of “landscape” garden which emerged in the Achaemenid Empire. Nine historical gardens, all of them in Iran, have been inscribed in UNESCO‘s World Heritage Sites as The Persian Garden since 2011.

From the time of the Achaemenid Empire, the idea of an earthly paradise spread through Persian literature and example to other cultures, both the Hellenistic gardens of the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemies in Alexandria.

The Avestan word pairidaēza-, Old Persian: paridaida-, or Median: paridaiza- “walled-around”, (i.e., a walled garden), were borrowed into Elamite: partetaš) and Akkadian, and later as romanized Ancient Greek: parádeisos. It was rendered as Latin: paradīsus, and from there entered into European languages, e.g., French: paradis, German: Paradies, and English: paradise. In the Achaemenid Empire, the term is used for functional worksites as well, and it translated as “plantations“; these sites contained not only orchards and tree plantations, but also sometimes bitumen harvesting and mining. The same word was used to describe the Elamite custom of creating a sacred grove or husa surrounding a royal grave that was the site of worship of the deceased king.

As the word expresses, such gardens would have been enclosed. Gardens provided a place for protected relaxation, both spiritual and leisurely, and represented a paradise on earth. The Common Iranian word for “enclosed space” was pari-daiza- (Avestan: pairi-daēza-). This term was adopted to describe the garden of Eden a Paradise on earth.

The garden’s construction may be formal (with an emphasis on structure) or casual (with a focus on nature), following several simple design rules. This allows the maximum possible use of the garden in terms of function and emotion.

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