Chehel Sotun Palace of Qazvin (Kolah Farangi)

The Kolah Farangi (Chehel Sotun) palace (forty columns) of Qazvin is located in this city (region of the same name), it was built in the year 1647 by the will of the Shāh Tahmāsp safavid and rebuilt in the qajaro period.

This building, known as the Kolah Farangi palace, the only remaining building of a set of royal palaces from the time of the Shāh Tahmāsp, is an octagonal two-storey building with an area of ​​approximately 500 square meters built in the middle of a garden and with Talar and small rooms on each floor.

For the decoration of this building, refined wall paintings, majolica and stucco work have been used. On the walls there are three layers of paintings of which the first dates back to the Safavid period, the second to the school of the same period and the third to the qajaro period.

The Forty Columns building (Kolah Farangi) that leads through the underground emergency exit leads out of the city, has been used as a place of custody of historical and archaeological objects and is currently used as a Qazvin calligraphy museum.

The palace of the forty columns of Qazvin is not to be confused with the homonymous palace at Esfahān!