Ramsar Palace

Mazandaran · IRAN DIGITAL WALL

Ramsar Palace
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Ramsar Palace tells its story through the contrast between interior and garden. The marble-clad building and European furnishings belong to a Pahlavi-era summer residence, while citrus trees and palms establish the subtropical setting near the Caspian Sea. Seeing both gives a fuller sense of this twentieth-century royal retreat than concentrating on the rooms alone. It is a useful stop on a coastal journey because it brings architecture, furnishings and cultivated landscape together. Let the garden frame the building, then look at how the interior expresses the residence’s different, more formal world.