Located in Afif-Abad street, extending over an area of 127,000 square meters, this garden is one of the oldest and most beautiful gardens of Shiraz. Safavid kings spent many delightful days and nights in this complex and enjoyed the mansion and its magnificent view of the garden. When Qajars came to the throne, Mirza Ali Mohammad Khan Qawam II bought this garden, built a new mansion, and expanded the garden; he also bought a nearby Qanat (Aqueduct) to water the garden. During the last years of Qajar’s reign, the manager of a garden dies and Afife, his young niece replaces him, the garden changed and flourished drastically under her watchful eyes and in the following years, for all her services and the improved state of the garden, people started calling the garden Afif-Abad. In 1340, the descendant of Qawam family gifted the garden to Farah Pahlavi, Mohamad-Reza Pahlavi’s wife; later The Army buys the garden in an auction and after the revolution of 1979 the garden is forfeited and now is used as a museum of military-related objects.
