Tour Guide, Tehran, Iran
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Travel to Iran and start a trip after you arrive in Zanjan. Go to the Tabriz road, just after 100 km driving you will reach the city of Mahneshan, one of the unique attractions in Iran’s geo-tourism and the mysterious tourist area. An area that has been said to have been Medieval for many years. In addition to historical, attractions, there are also beautiful nature rides in this area. Travel to this beautiful tourist area to explore this area with boom tour.
Behestan Castle or old fortress is built in the mountains of hard soil. The castle is damaged due to the rapid winds, eroding and passes of Ghezel Ozan River. This kind of castle is actually a fossil-shaped rock and resembles a tall minaret with hard rocks on it. In the term geology, this phenomenon is called hoodoo. The appearance of the castle has been formed with a number of chimneys next to each other. At the bottom of the castle, there are cavities that caused the castle to look more mysterious.
Midian entered in Iran plateau, through off the Ghezel Ozan River. In the next part of trip, they find a place to live they settled in a village called Mad Abad, which far 15 km from Mahne Shan. The castle’s builders started by having the initial plan to dig the mountain, drain the soil and stone, and the rooms, corridors, and stairs there Have created. The castle has 64 rooms and two stairs. Rooms have cavities in the form of a triangle or a circle, where the place of tallow-burner. Due to certain time conditions in the past, it shows that this castle has had a defensive role.
The historical background of this tourist attraction of Zanjan shows that this castle was used during the era of Achaemenid, Sasanian, and Islamic periods. One of the rooms of the northwest canopy of the castle, which hasn’t damaged and undisturbed, is decorated resembled the altar of mosques in Islamic times.