Iran's enchanting Roodkhan Castle

<div id="divLead2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfDIqPQ9ymlBGgfLzWbrQqtYZUZETt71avjI1-Y9kP1wvyRj7TQh0NKNRWsnesf8T4TNOMu_82HvWT8fwQD1-V1s0A-7QONIR9oWsWbMUApTPtn8V5u7wH20zk2Xwms_nZ6TvNjBoO_y0/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfDIqPQ9ymlBGgfLzWbrQqtYZUZETt71avjI1-Y9kP1wvyRj7TQh0NKNRWsnesf8T4TNOMu_82HvWT8fwQD1-V1s0A-7QONIR9oWsWbMUApTPtn8V5u7wH20zk2Xwms_nZ6TvNjBoO_y0/s1600/images.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <b><br /></b> <b>The medieval Roodkhan Castle is located southwest of the city of Fooman in Iran's Gilan Province in the heart of the forest.</b></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> To reach this castle people walk a three kilometer distance on foot, then climb around 2,000 steps.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> Made from brick and stone, the castle covers 50,000 square meters and is 900 meters above sea level. It is built on two tips of a mount with a total of 65 towers surrounding it, while the walls run 1,500 meters in length. The castle was built over a thousand years ago and it is an important historical monument in Iran.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <b>Flower Festival in Tehran</b></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> The beauty of flowers and plants is not only in their shapes and colors. The sweet sensations they convey have divine beauty.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> Tehran’s International Flower Show is Iran’s largest indoors ornamental display of plants from over 240 top nurseries. The flower show is an annual four-day event that attracts over 2 million visitors on average.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <b>City of Mehran</b></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> Mehran is a city in Ilam Province in the west of Iran. Because it is in the vicinity of Iraq, during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s it was invaded not once but twice by Iraqi forces under Saddam Hossein, but ultimately the city was retaken by Iran.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> Today, Mehran is a city on the way to Karbala for Iranian pilgrims paying homage to the Prophet of Islam (PBUH)’s grandson, Imam Hossein (PBUH).</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> <b>Hara Forest</b></div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> Qeshm Island located in the Persian Gulf is Iran’s biggest island. With a climate of 26° Celsius the island is particularly warm. One of the most amazing sites in Qeshm is the mangrove Hara Forest.</div> <div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;"> The forest stretches around 7,500 hectors, and is filled with many narrow tidal channels. With low tides the forest appears as a vast tree-covered island and with high tides the forest disappears into the water.</div> <div> <br /></div>

Iran's enchanting Roodkhan Castle

The medieval Roodkhan Castle is located southwest of the city of Fooman in Iran's Gilan Province in the heart of the forest. To re...

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