The Citadel of Bam (before the earthquake)
The Arg-e Bam (Persian: ارگ بم), the Citadel of Bam, is located in the Kerman Province, Iran, and it is considered the largest adobe building in the world
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The Citadel of Bam in 2002
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The mud walls of Arg-e Bam glowing under the setting sun. Photograph by George Steinmetz
This huge citadel on the Silk Road was built before 500 BC and remained in use until 1850. It is not known with certainty why it was later abandoned.
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'The heyday of the citadel was from the 7th to 11th centuries, being at the crossroads of important trade routes and known for the production of silk and cotton garments' whc.unesco.org/en/list/1208/
[Photograph by Martin Gray]
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The Citadel of Bam was used as the major location site for Valerio Zurlini's film 'The Desert of the Tartars' (1976), an adaptation of Dino Buzzati's novel 'The Tartar Steppe' (Il deserto dei tartari, 1940), one of the best Italian novels ever ...
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