castle Shadab

Shadab Castle is a natural fortress adjacent to the lake created by dam Dez to 40 km north of the city of Dezful in the Shahyun area. With almost 10 km in length and 4 in width, it is located at a height of 850 meters above sea level and its walls were formed in the Cenozoic era due to the single vertical crumbling and erosion due to flooding of the river.
The height of these walls at the highest point reaches 700 meters and in the lower one 30. The only connecting route of this castle is from an entrance door which is on the north side of it near the village of Islām Ābād.
The rooms, which in the period of the Sassanids and before them were known under the names of "Dej anushbord", "Gili gerdā" and "Dej farāmushi", were carved into the rock and elements such as the windmills, the water cistern etc… in the vicinity of these cavities were built mostly with mud bricks and stone and mud.
Above the entrance door of this castle are still the remains of the surveillance pits. The rooms dug into the heart of the rock are deep by half 20 meters and sometimes form a tunnel under the mountain.
Some of them were built within a layer of clay about 2 meters thick. These also have bows with multiple equal sides. Other rooms have been dug around a central area.
The perimeter area of ​​the castle is covered with single trees, mountain almond trees, ziziphus, ziziphus nummularia, vexx pseudo-negundo, fig, tamarisk and poplar of Euphrates.
As a fauna there are chamois, leopard, wolf, hyena, fox, jackal, wild cat, rabbit, porcupine, crab, beaver, hedgehog and various types of bats.