Fīrūzābād

Firuzabad lies in a watered mountain basin south of Shiraz. Its later settlement inherited the landscape of the circular Sasanian city of Gur, whose radial streets and surrounding field boundaries formed an unusually regular plan. Medieval writers praised the district's roses, rose-water and other fragrant products. Yet the ancient urban centre did not remain the sole focus of habitation: surface pottery suggests that the circular city was abandoned after the fourteenth century.

Settlement developed farther east, near the outer enclosure of the old planned landscape. The Islamic monuments of the surrounding plain include a shrine near Dawlatabad attributed to the Safavid period. A gateway to the governor's palace-garden, dated broadly to the eighteenth or nineteenth century, stands at the eastern corner of the ancient twenty-sided enclosure. These later buildings place worship and provincial authority within a countryside still marked by Sasanian planning. Firuzabad's history thus includes a shift in the location of settlement, alongside the persistence of monumental remains and older boundaries.