Landscape Tourism of Iranian Palace Description and Explanation of Qasr-e Qajar at Tehran with Landscape Approach

The palace is the hallmark of civilization and power of a government and an element influencing the structure of the city and the social, political, and cultural aspects of historical periods. Today, palace tourism is done not only to observe a historical body but also as a symbolic element of the thoughts and beliefs of power groups. The failure of specificity approach to achieve the core of the palace’s tourism culture requires the adoption of holistic approaches to understanding the identity of the building. The purpose of this article is to explain the concept of the palace and to examine how to move from partial approaches to holistic attitudes in palace tourism. For this purpose, the content analysis method with two descriptive and explanatory approaches has been used in analyzing Iranian palaces and the case of Qasr-e Qajar in Tehran. According to the research findings, adopting a landscape approach in tourism due to the nature of holistic and comprehensive perception leads to reading and explaining the identity of the whole palace as a text in the city. The explanation of Qasr-e Qajar also shows that this palace has affected and has been influenced by the social, political, historical, and natural structures of the city, both physically, functionally, and semantically, at the micro, meso and macro levels.