Sunday, 6 May 2018

IRAN

A nice cover from Belarus, depicting a joint issue with Iran from year 2011, celebrating the "Mir Castle" in Grodno Province (Belarus) and the Karim Khan Castle in Shiraz (Iran).
The Mir Castle Complex is recognized by UNESCO for its cultural significance since 2000, as an excepcional exemple of a central European castle, reflecting in its design and layout successive cultural influences (Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance) that blend harmoniously to create an impressive monumento to the history of this region.
The Karim Khan Castle is a citadel located in Shiraz, it was built at the end of the 18th. century and it seems like a medieval fortress.
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