Chehel-Sotun Qazvin

Chehel-Sotoun of Qazvin is known as the Kolah Farangi mansion in Qazvin. This monument, the only remaining palace of the royal palaces of the time of Shah Tahmasb, is located in the center of Qazvin and in the Azadi Square (Sabzeh Meydan Square), and known as the Kolah Farangi during the Safavid period and when Qazvin was the capital.
Shah Tahmasb in 951 AH, due to the threats of the Ottoman Turks, decided to transfer the capital from Tabriz to Qazvin, and in the same year, he bought lands called Zangi Abad from Mirza Sharaf jahani, one of the elders and trustees of the city for the construction of royal buildings.
King Tahmasb ordered the chosen architects of the country to build a square-shaped garden in which to build wonderful buildings, halls, porches and beautiful pools. King Tahmasb Safavid built it by the map of Turkish architect with a very small plaid style, which has very elegant and beautiful wooden windows. The Kolah Farangi mansion and the façade Ali-Qapu is the only remaining monuments of the Safavid periodic gardens in Qazvin. This building was rebuilt during the Qajar period by Qazvin governor Mohammad Baqer Saad-al-Saltanah and named Chehelsotun.
Chehel-sotun constructed as an octagon building that has two floors with a total area of 500 square meters. Brick columns and arches of the half-circle of the building surround it, and on top of it is a porch with wooden columns. The palace used as an ancient and historical treasure in 1337 and has now become the Qazvin Museum of Calligraphy. The Chehelsotun mansion was registered in Bahman 1334, with the number of 389 in the list of historical monuments of Iran.

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