[4] The city is 80 kilometres (50 mi) southeast of Shiraz, the capital of Fars province.

[5] Sarvestan's history goes back some 2600 years when the Achaemenids established the Persian Empire.

The Sassanid monument of Sasanids' Palace (Kakhe Sasan) is located in south east of the city 90 km from Shiraz, experts believe the monument was constructed during the Sasanid dynastic era (224-651 A.D), and it was either a governing palace or a Zoroastrian temple, probably a fire temple.

The monument was registered in Iran's National Heritage list in 1956, but the site in danger as the result of unprofessional restorations.

[citation needed] At the time of the 2006 national census, the city's population was 16,846 in 4,094 households,[6] when it was capital of the former Sarvestan District of Shiraz County.