In the central Iranian province of Fars, the town of Izadkhast is home to the Izad Khast Castle. Constructed during the Sassanid dynasty rule, 224 and 651 AD, the castle served as a walled city fortification along the old Silk Road that passed across central Iran. After Arg-e Bam, it is the second-largest adobe structure in the world. Perched on a high bedrock with a commanding view of the Izadkhast valley lies the castle. Many little passageways and alleys that wind through centuries-old tiny cottages and structures may be found inside the castle walls. On August 9, 2007, the castle and the Izadkhast complex around it were nominated in the Cultural category for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List. Situated between Shiraz and Isfahan on the historic Silk Road lies the Izad-khast fortress. The location is surrounded by a desert and is in the middle of nowhere. But in the midst of this nowhere, a high single bedrock overlooking a valley provided the perfect setting for the construction of a fortified desert metropolis. Built around the bedrock, the fortification walls of the castle are tall, nearly perpendicular, and span six to fifteen meters on three sides. Because of the natural topography of the site and additional fortifications, the castle was one of the hardest places for foes and criminals to access in antiquity. The location and construction style of the castle exhibit distinctive features. Materially speaking, nonetheless, it is similar to the Citadel of Bam, Rayen, and other neighboring locations in the provinces of Yazd and Kerman [Information and Image Credit : Izad-Khast_Castle, Wikipedia] [Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izad-Khast_Castle ] [Image : View of Izadkhast Castle in August 2018.; Wikipedia-Image-Author : Hadi Karimi] [Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License; (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property and Sharing, Remixing or Attributing the Work)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en ] [Original Wikipedia-Image-Source-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Izadkhast_Castle_by_Hadi_Karimi.jpg ] #History#Architecture#Castles
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