Rudkhan Castle

A medieval castle in the wooded mountains of Gilan, some 25 kilometres south-west of Fuman. Its walls, about a kilometre and a half long, are laid in brick and stone and follow the crest of two peaks 670 and 715 metres high, with towers and guard buildings surviving along them. The earliest fortifications are put back to Sasanian times, and under the Seljuks the castle was rebuilt by the Ismailis. The climb from the foot goes up a forest stairway of roughly a thousand steps.

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