Ali Qapu Palace (Kaj-e Ali Qapu), Isfahan
Ali Qapu Palace, or the High Gate, is a slender seven-story building, like a large prism that breaks the straight path on the western side of Imam Square, to dominate their mole. Built by Shah Abbas on a Timurid building before was used as a seat of government by the Safavid rulers, and was the reception area and main entrance to the palace complex that stretches west of the plaza within a large park.
Thin wooden columns, similar to those of Chehel Sotun, holding a wooden coffered ceiling on a balcony overlooking the plaza for its western side, opposite the Lutfallah Mosque, with a superb panorama over the whole Imam Square, the Old City and the substance of the sharp mountains that surround Isfahan. From here, the emperors and their guests viewers exercised polo tournament and the fight, which were developed in the plaza at its feet.
Much of the mosaic mural decoration of the rooms, corridors and stairs have disappeared, perhaps because of the profanity of his motives. Niches still retains figurative paintings of young girls walking by lush gardens. The exterior has been recently decorated with two panels of tiles with portraits of Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei.
On the upper floors, high-rise, multiple units are individually decorated niches polylobulated drilling drafts all vaults and stalactites with musical instruments. This was where the ambassadors were regaled with music concerts.
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