The historic castle of Shiraz with tall towers one of which is leaning like the Leaning Tower Pisa.

👑Karim Khan Citadel is located in the center of Shiraz. This citadel was built during the reign of the Zandiyeh dynasty and after Karimkhan Zand made Shiraz as the capital and this place as He chose the place of his life and became known as Karim Khani Fortress.
🏰The citadel was built between 1766 and 1767, and Karimkhan employed the best architects of his time to build it. He also procured the best materials from inside and outside the country and finished the construction of the building quickly.
🏫This building was used as the seat of the government during the Zandiya period and as the residence of the local governors during the Qajar period.
✨️ Abdul Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma, the ruler of Fars, ordered to Restoration of painted miniatures in this building.
🏚The citadel building is a combination of residential and military architecture. The inner part of the citadel has special elegance with porches and painted rooms, fountains and gardens.
🏡 The three north, south and west sides each have a porch and six residential rooms on both sides. side
Eastern includes a private bathroom and some service facilities.
🏠The quadruple tower and rampart, along with the moat that was dug around it, also played a defensive role. The thickness of the walls at the base is 3 meters and at the top is 12 meters.
🏢 The height of the towers is 14 meters.
They are made of bricks.
One of the four towers of this citadel is tilted like the tower of Pisa trend
Stopping the tilting of this tower is important from a technical and engineering point of view has
🌟The exterior of this building is made of brick and the height of the walls is 12 meters, and a 14-meter tower is erected in each corner. On the edges of the wall, there are parapets that are very suitable for observation and shooting during war.
🏚The appearance of the building even in the inner area
It does not have much decoration and is limited only to the interior of the rooms.
🏫The main materials used in the building are brick and stone, which is the only stone
Marble was used and brought from Tabriz.
🏘The citadel building has very thick and impenetrable walls, the most thick walls are in the outer walls of the citadel. In the upper part of these walls, there are stone gutters for direct rain and there are also built-in rifles for shooting.
🌟The towers are built in the square of the citadel and each one has a 6 meter foundation.
💫It is said that during the construction of this building due to soil settlement and inappropriate
Identifying the northwest soil to create a tower should be weighed
To withstand a lot, its construction site is stretched a few meters to the west
For this reason, this tower is not in line with the other towers
The shape of the trapezoid is incomplete.
🌟These towers have three separate floors and can be accessed periodically by stairs
is There are two rooms on these floors, one room for rest
Guards and a room to store the weapons of these towers by a door
Behind the road is the entrance of the citadel on the exterior with a bezak panel
The tiling of the battle scene of Rostam is decorated with a white demon, which belongs to the Qajar period.
✨️The view of the tiling of the inner area on the eastern side
The top of the entrance door is completely gone.
🏦The stones used are made of limestone, known as gandamak, and there is a mark on these stones that is unique to the stonemasons who made those pieces, and it is the stonemason's seal.
💥Connection of rooms
All the rooms are connected from the inside and they have the ability to travel without leaving the interior space.
⚘️The entrances of the rooms are completely opposite each other and there is only one space like a corridor between two rooms.
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🌟The small rooms above the corridors, which include four rooms on each side, are decorated with moqrans and similar decorations, but in its painting
Low quality materials are used.
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