ARG-E BAM (BAM CITADEL)

The Bam citadel is the largest brick structure in the world, located near the city of Bam in the province of Kerman in southeastern Iran. This huge citadel, registered on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites “Bam and its Cultural Space”, is located on the Silk Road, built in the 5th century BC and continued to be used until 1850.
The historic Bam citadel, with an approximate area of 200,000 square meters, is considered to be the largest collection of masonry brick works in the world.
The whole building is a great fortress that the citadel located at the heart of it, but due to its elegant appearance, which is also the highest part of the complex, the entire castle is called the Bam citadel. This historic citadel consists of several architectural forms including the walls of the fence, the tower and the gates and numerous gates, the mosque, the market, the inn, the caravanserai, the school, the bath, the zurkhaneh and the residential neighborhoods with the houses of the reach and poor people, the governorate including the barracks, the stables and mill, the house of the commander of the army and the domicile of the governor, the four-season mansion and the observation tower.