Chehel Sotoun Palace

An eight-sided two-storey pavilion in the middle of a garden in central Qazvin is the only surviving building of the palace complex of Shah Tahmasp I, from the years when Qazvin was the Safavid capital. Under the Qajars the building was rebuilt, and it was then that the name Chehel Sotoun stuck to it. The walls carry painting in several layers, and since 2004 a museum of calligraphy has worked inside.

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