Golestan Palace, Tehran · Travel Poster

Not just a view, the heritage behind it. Ella writes about the place, its hidden history, and the details that never make it into the guidebooks, all printed on the poster.

Everyone comes to Golestan Palace for the same thing, the dazzle of it, courtyards of mirrored halls and tilework so bright it hums in the sun, the old royal seat of the Qajar shahs in the middle of Tehran. What almost nobody stops to think about is the tall tower on the eastern side, the one called Shams ol Emareh, the Edifice of the Sun. Naser al-Din Shah had it built in the 1860s for a very particular reason. He had seen pictures of the tall buildings of Europe, cities that climbed upwards, and he wanted a high place of his own to stand and look out over his capital, which until then had almost nothing above a single storey.

An original illustration, available in colour or black and white, created for the Ella's Adventures travel poster series.

No frame included.

Please note that, to protect the original artwork from copyright infringement, the images shown on this website are low resolution. The poster you receive is printed in high resolution, with all the detail and clarity of the original.