id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4774 Tachara - Wikipedia .html text/html 1656 312 74 The Tachara, or the Tachar Château, also referred to as the Palace of Darius the Great,[1] was the exclusive building of Darius I at Persepolis, Iran. It is located 70 km northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in Fars Province. It was completed after the death of Darius I in 486, by his son and successor, Xerxes I,[4] who called it a taçara in Old Persian, translated to "winter palace". On the walls of its gates, there are carvings that shows one of the famous Achaemenids architecture motifs: the Battle of Shahriar and Lion. The Tachara stands back to back to the Apadana, and is oriented southward.[5] Measuring 1,160 square meters (12,500 square feet), it is the smallest of the palace buildings on the Terrace at Persepolis.[6] The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Palace of Darius I in Persepolis. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4774.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4774.txt