A Cape Town Castle Military Museum tagged image from photographer – Hamed Saber as published on Flickr.
Hall Ceiling of White Castle – Sa’d Abad Palace
Image by Hamed Saber
In second floor of the White Castle of Sa’dabd Palace, when you look up head, you’ll see four huge wall paintings, and a very detailed and great cornice on the ceiling…
I shoot this in our Sa’d Abad Small Gathering.
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The Sadabad Palace (Persian:کاخ سعدآباد Sa`dābād) is a palace built by the Pahlavi dynasty of Iran in the Shemiran area of Tehran.
The complex was firstinhabited by Qajar monarchs and royal family in the 19th century. After an expansion of the compounds, Reza Shah lived there in the 1920s. And his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi moved there in the 1970s.
After the Iranian Revolution, the complex became a museum. However, the current presidential palace is located adjacent to the Sa’d Abad compound.
Other castles in Sa’d Abad palace:
In total, Sa’dabad Palace contains 18 castles or houses, they are:
1. Ahmad shah Castle (Currently used by the Women’s Basij)
2. Shahvand Castle (Currently Green Museum)
3. White Castle or White House (Currently the National Museum Castle)
4. Special Castle (Museum of Natural History of the past, currently used by the president.)
5. Black Castle (كاخ اسود) (Currently the Museum of Current Arts)
6. Shams Castle (Currently the Museum of Human Studies)
7. Ashraf Castle (Named after Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s twin sister, Currently the Museum of Historical Plates)
8. Gholam Reza Castle
9. Mother’s Queen Castle (Currently the Republic Building)
10. Ahmad Reza Castle
11. Abdol Reza Castle (Sa’adabad Control Center)
12. Bahman Pahlavi Castle (Named after Gholam Reza’s son, Currently the Training Center)
13. Shahram Castle (Named after Ashraf Pahlavi’s son, Currently the Military Museum)
14. Farideh Diba
15. Valiahd Reza Pahlavi Castle (1st castle, Currently the Museum of Behzad)
16. Valiahd Reza Pahlavi Castle (2nd castle, Currently the Museum of Dafineh)
17. Farahnaz and Ali Reza Castle (Children of Reza Pahlavi, Currently the Museum of Calligraphy and book of Mir Emad)
18. Leila Castle
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadabad_Palace
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Added to flickr Explore (interestingness) page of 15 April 2007.
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