 Complete the following phrase:  Its history spans more than three centuries. It was first described in 1671 by the French traveller Jean Chardin as royal gardens which might have been founded at least in 1625 and were variably referred to as fortress gardens or Seidabad gardens later in history. The gardens appear in the records by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort 1701 and on the Tbilisi, map composed by Prince Vakhushti 1735. Pillaged in the 