Hafezieh
Hafez's tomb in northern Shiraz, between two gardens — the ground he named himself when he wrote of the rose-walk of Mosalla and the water of Roknabad.
A short history
The first structure was raised over Hafez's grave in the fifteenth century. What stands today dates from Karim Khan Zand and was rebuilt in 1936 to André Godard's design: a hall of twenty columns and an octagonal pavilion over the grave, its soffit tiled turquoise on the inside. The tombstone is Yazd marble, with two ghazals carved into it.
The garden
Two gardens, one behind the other. The northern one is higher and Shiraz is visible from it. The cypresses are old and the orange trees scent the air in late winter. People sit on the pavilion steps and read the ghazals aloud; that is part of the place, not a disturbance of it.