El-Gölü

Image:ShahGoli-Tabriz.JPG back of the El-Gölü]]

Tradition dates the construction of the park to the late 18th century.{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}} However, it may have been built earlier as well; some sources suggest as far back as the 14th century.{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}} In the Qajar period the park was restored and high terraces were added.{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}}

The northern side of the lake was built up, which, according to Penelope Hobhouse, makes the lake "appear to float over the valley".{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}} A causeway leads out to a pavilion, today the site of a restaurant.{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}} The pavilion was once crowned with a dome.{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}} From the west hillside, a spring feeds the lake, a cascade descending in five terraces.{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}} The sight is flanked by poplar trees and willows.{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}}

The park was first named Shah Goli (Shah Gölü), the "Royal Lake" or the "Royal Pond".{{sfn|Hobhouse|2006}} After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the park and the surrounding were renamed as El Gölü, "lake of the people".

{{wide image|Panorama of Tabriz.jpg|600px| Panoramic view of Tabriz from El Gölü.}}

{{wide image|Shah_gulu.jpg|600px| Panoramic view of El Gölü.}}

File:ائل گولی 1.jpg|El Gölü

File:Shah Goli and Pars hotel.JPG|El Gölü lake and Hotel Pars in top of the hills.

File:El goli.jpg|El Gölü lake from hills.

File:Shah-Goli.Tabriz.jpg|Night view of El Gölü.

File:ائل گولی 2.jpg|El Gölü

File:ائل گولی 3.jpg|El Gölü

• Khaqani Park
• Golestan Park

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• {{cite encyclopaedia|last=Hobhouse|first=Penelope|author-link=Penelope Hobhouse|date=2006|title=Shah-Goli|encyclopaedia=The Oxford Companion to the Garden|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-866255-6 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662556.001.0001/acref-9780198662556-e-1527?rskey=I7OGHa&result=23}}

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• [http://www.iranchamber.com/cities/tabriz/tabriz.php City of Tabriz on Iran Chamber Society (www.iranchamber.com)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120110141117/http://chap.sch.ir/ketabDetail.asp?id=215 Editorial Board, East Azarbaijan Geography, Iranian Ministry of Education, 2000] (High School Text Book in Persian)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20070216155119/http://www.tabrizcity.org/
• [http://www.tishineh.com/touritem/201-9/a Tishineh]

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