As countryside of Kashan, Fin region has always been benefitting from more favorable climate owing to its proximity to Dandaneh Mt. as well as Fin spring. Therefore, so many historical gardens have been built there among which is the famous Fin garden, which is, currently the outstanding historical monument of this area. However, there are still remaining ruins of an older garden called Bagh-i-...

Vegetation is the important part of a historical garden so that, by destroying it, it's impossible to call the historical site a "Garden". In Persian gardens, the plants have special importance, since in many references the methods of planting in garden are specifically described. Whereas garden's vegetation is a mortal element and its replacement and restoration is not easily possible, so docu...

In the study of those historic monuments that are more or less ruined, the reflections and images in written historical manuscripts are of utmost importance. In these cases, any succinct references can be valuable and informative regarding to the historical status and architectural configuration and formal composition of these monuments. One of the less studied resources for architectural histo...

“Garden” and “Carpet” are the most expressive Iranian artworks rooted in Iran’s culture and civilization which show beliefs, values and interests of Iranian artists, both garden and carpet designers. This paper studies the relations between these two valuable arts in Iran. At first the background of two fields has been reviewed and then the designs of historical ga...

In Persian culture, carpet is the most important formal image expression of “Garden”, next to its architectural manifestation. Nowadays, while the historical gardens have already been destroyed by nature or man and lack of documents is dominant, garden’s representation in garden-carpets enables researchers to study the history of Persian gardens. This paper, analyzes Persian g...

The garden has a social, aesthetic and artistic representational capacity, and is a mix of static and dynamic elements that protect, rebuild and revive with theoretical, practical and technical challenges. "Garden archeology" is considered to be a subclass of archeological activity, which, after the Second World War and especially in recent decades, has been the focus of attention on projects f...