Mellat Park in Details by Payam Rahmani

Nikon P5100

This is my first try of GigaPan Imager (new model is called GigaPan Epic) out of home. And this is my first 1 Gigapixel+ GigaPan panorama uploaded on Gigapan.org.

Mellat Park (Pârk-e Mellat) is a park in Tehran, the capital city of Iran.

Known as the Shahanshahi Park (Imperial park) prior to the revolution of 1979, it is one of the largest recreation areas in Tehran. It is situated at the foot of the Alborz mountains adjacent to Valiasr Street in the east, and extends to the Chamran Expressway (Parkway) and Seoul Street to the west. The park lies south of the Tehran International Fair grounds and the Enghelab Club. It has pathways for walking and shade for picnics and relaxation as well as facilities such as snack bars, coffee shops, and a small aviary. At the edge of the park is a new Cineplex. Mellat Park is watered by the winter-snow streams coming down from Mt. Tochal close to 4,000 m high.

The Mellat park is also the location of one of the steam-powered locomotives used on the first Persian railway section built during 1886-1888. The No. 664 locomotive was built by the Belgian "Ateliers de Tubize" and commissioned on 1887.

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