Alamut
Either if you are on foot or riding a tour bus when passing through the Rudbar Province of the Ghazvin state, you must stop to focus on the top of the Alamut hill. There you can see it: The Castle of the eagle’s stand, and after that if by any chance you find yourself at the top of that hill and in that castle, you will suddenly realize how easy it was for you to be spotted.
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Alamut sits at the top of a 200-meter hill with rocky cliffs and deadly drops. The castle is around 2163 meters above sea level and was built from the bricks made in the near area or using the stones found on the rocky cliffs around the castle.
There are not many ways to access the castle easily, let alone invade it, Maybe that’s why Around the start of the first millennium Hassan Sabbah used this very well built castle as his command center, so still if you ask the locals about the castle, the may call it “Ghale Hassan” or the Hassan Castle.
The castle now lays in ruins after the 13th century Mongol raid and the 19th-century treasure hunt. But you can still see the glory of the eagle in it.
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