Shazdeh Garden meaning Prince

Shahzadeh Garden meaning Prince’s Garden is a historical Persian garden located near (6km away from) Mahan in Kerman province, Iran. Mahan is a city in and capital of Mahan District, in Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran.

The Persian garden of Shazdeh has different spectacular landscape in every season!

Bagh-e Shahzadeh is 5.5 hectares with a rectangular shape and a wall around it. It consists of an entrance structure and gate at the lower end and a two-floor residential structure at the upper end. The distance between these two is ornamented with water fountains which are working by the natural incline of the land.


The garden was built originally for Mohammad Hasan Khan Qajar Sardari Iravani ca.1850 and was extended ca.1870 by Abdolhamid Mirza Naserodolleh and during the eleven years of his governorship in the Qajar dynasty. The construction was left unfinished, due to the death of Abdolhamid Mirza in the early 1890s.






As a result of the 6.4% slope along the garden, and its 407 meters length, a height difference of about 20 meters occurs. This natural slope has led to divisions in the garden defining the nature of the garden.




The selection and configuration of plants in Mahan Shahzadeh garden plays a determinative role in the garden’s identity. The trees and vegetation seen in the bed of Shahzadeh garden are in the order as follows:

  • Evergreen and windbreak trees such as pine and cedar
  • Shady and wide-leaf trees such as wild wych-elm, rowan, sycamore and aspen (In addition to their importance in creating shadows, these trees are resistant to the region’s climate)
  • Ornamental plants including ornamental cedars, and ornamental juniper, and Shirkhesht, yielding pint size blossoms in winter.
  • Fruit trees, planted in both side plots, especially create unique view when seen from the upper routes.
  • Other trees such as ash, salsify, and pine When you enter the garden, in the whole space along the main axis landscapes of Joupar altitudes are seen. This long landscape is hidden by the huge size of the main structure and is reinforced by the trees at both sides having different colors at different seasons.


Tree reflections, the façade structure and the gazebo have contributed to a relaxing feel about the garden, one of peace and solitude. Light and shade play a significant role in this landscaping.

In 2005 experts of the Research Center for Historical Sites and Structures were preparing documents to register Shazdeh Garden, amongst other gardens, on the UNESCO World Heritage List and the Garden was finally inscribed in June of 2011.

There are 9 Persian Garden (Bagh-e Irani) which have been inscribed in UNESCO List:

  1. 1. Ancient Garden of Pasargadae ( Fars Province) Shahzdeh Garden (Mahan, Kerman Province)
  2. Abbas Abad Garden (Behshahr, Mazandaran Province)
  3. The Garden in golestan Palace of Tehran
  4. Eram Garden (Shiraz)
  5. Chehel Sotoon ( Isfahan)
  6. Shahzadeh Garden (Mahan, Kerman Province)
  7. 7. Fin Garden (Kashan)
  8. Dowlat Abad Garden (Yazd)
  9. Akbarieh Garden (Birjand)


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