, the former owner of Kamraniyeh estates In the late 1800s,
Kamran Mirza Nayeb es-Saltaneh, the eldest son of
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, grabbed the lands of Kamraniyeh from the locals who used to farm in the area. Afterwards, he ordered to build a fabulous garden instead of the farmlands and then named it Kamraniyeh which means
the estate belongs to Kamran. Kamraniyeh garden featured a large variety of plants and a
greenhouse to protect sensitive flowers inside it in winter. In audition, two
Austrian gardeners were hired to protect the garden all the time. After
Kamran Mirza's death in 1929, his children gradually sold the lands of Kamraniyeh garden to wealthy residents of
Tehran. The new owners built themselves
villas in order to use them as
summer houses. Today however most of the gardens have been replaced by residential towers and newbuild apartments, few of them have actually escaped development. == Location ==