Niavaran

The Niavaran Building of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM).

The Niavaran Public Library is nestled snugly within the Niavaran city park.

Niavaran (Persian: نياوران‎‎) is a district in the north of Tehran's foothills. Bordering leafy, uphill-winding Darband Street, it can be reached from Tajrish Square, and is close to Darabad at the far north-eastern corner of Greater Tehran.

Culture

It is home to the affluent as well as many artists, and replete with cultural riches such as Niavaran Palace Complex, Niavaran Park, and the Farhangsara (cultural centre) that includes an amphitheatre, museum, music hall, and Café Gallerie, a courtyard coffee shop with indoor exhibition space.

In recent years, the Niavaran area has become famous by groups of artists who use the traditional backdrop of the area for taking photos on their mobile phones. It has been extensively photographed by many artists using the Instagram software, which is one of the only social networking applications available in Iran.

Notable sights

The architecture is unique in that the area's graded slopes have given rise to multilevel layouts and idiosyncratic lofts. Being situated on the city foothills (1700 metres above sea level), Niavaran has a cooler climate all year round compared to the rest of Tehran, and excellent vantage points.

References

Main neighborhoods of Tehran

North	Aghdasieh Lavizan Ajodanieh Darakeh Darband Darrous Davoodiyeh Doulat Ekhtiarieh Elahieh Farmanieh Gheytarieh Gholhak Jamaran Jordan Kamranieh Mahmoodieh Mehran Niavaran Pasdaran Shemiran Tajrish Vanak Valiasr Velenjak Yusef Abad Zafaraniyeh

West	Ekbatan Apadana Complex Bagh Feiz Farahzad Gisha Jannat Abad Punak Sa'adat Abad Sadeghiyeh Shahrak-e Gharb Shahran Shahrara Shahr-e ziba Tarasht Tehransar

Central	Abbas Abad Amir Abad Baharestan Enqelab Street Bazar Hasan Abad Jomhuri Keshavarz Boulevard Park-e Shahr Seyed Khandan Toopkhaneh

East	Afsariyeh Lavizan Narmak Tehranpars Tehranno Piroozi

South	Gomrok Javadiyeh Khavaran Navvab Nazi Abad Rey Yaft Abad

Coordinates: 35°49′N 51°28′E / 35.817°N 51.467°E / 35.817; 51.467

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