[7][8] The palace was named DiwanKhaneh mansion (fa:عمارت دیوانخانه) and was visited by Pietro Della Valle.
In his travelogue he wrote:" This garden, which is called Bagh-e Shah or Diwankhaneh, includes a square located at the end of the plain and at the foot of the hills full of trees and behind the palace.
[9] In 1832 David Brewster wrote in The Edinburgh Encyclopædia that "Ashraff is celebrated as the favourite residence of Shah Abbas, and enjoys the only good harbour on the southern side of the Caspian".
The location took the fancy of Abbas I who made it an imperial residence in 1613 and he commissioned the construction of a palace and gardens.
Due to unhealthy management, the problems of this unit have not been solved in the years after being transferred to the private sector.
On 7 December of the same year, the head of Behshahr's Justice Department said that the court issued the preliminary verdict of bankruptcy.
After the implementation of the failed privatization and transfer plan, the lands of Chitsazi factory went to auction, and the lands and properties and waste of the factory were divided between creditor workers, social security, taxes and other public and private creditors.
It includes many historical sites such as Behshahr the home of Abbas the Great, Cheshmeh Emarat Palace, Baghe Shah Gardens and the Chit Sazi weaving factor Abbas Abbad which is famous for its greenery and beauty and also its historic significance is a major tourism attraction.
[25] Recently, after scavenging near the suburbs of Behshahr, an ancient town was discovered which included nearly a thousand corpses of children to middle-aged men.
Bagh-e Shah (باغ شاه), also known as Mellat Park, is a garden founded in 1021 AH (1612 AD) during the reign of Abbas the Great.
Other finds included flint blades, walrus and deer bones, giving valuable information about human development from the ice age in the Mazandaran area.
This structure was also built and started working in the Safavid period and was registered in the list of national monuments in 1973.
[32] Located in the southeast of Behshahr in the midst of the Jungle and on the slopes of the Alborz mountain range, Abbasabad complex marks Iran's most prominent non-desert garden which comprises a lake, a palace, towers as well as bathhouse and a brick mansion in the middle of the lake.
With the passage of time and the fall of the Safavid dynasty, the garden was forgotten and buried in the heart of dense forests until, a part of the site and its artifacts were pulled out through continuous excavations by archaeologists over the years.