Dezak Castle
Dezak Castle is located in the historical, political and cultural village of the same name (Dej-e kuchak, small fortress) south of Shahr-e Kord (Chahār Mahāl and Bakhtiāri region) and was built in the 1292 of the lunar Hegira.
The palace of the Dezak castle for many years was the residence and center of the government Bakhtiyari and due to the high reputation of its owners it has served as a meeting place for many well-known personalities in the scientific and political fields.
The architecture of this palace-castle is inspired by seventeenth and eighteenth century European palaces with Iranian ornamental motifs. This building has foundations and thick base walls, it was built on two floors with Iwan Northern and Southern, it has a brick roof, plaster of straw, clay and plaster and is equipped with four circular towers-no military function-that are used as a warehouse and prison.
After the construction of the foundations and the main part of the castle including the rooms and the ground floor structure, until the 1325 year of the lunar Hegira gradually to the original building were added other parts that included the building andaruni (part reserved for women), the back courtyards and other sections while the interior decorations, the facades, the finishings and the exterior of the building, in particular the portal and the exterior building have been developed in several phases and then come to completion .
The first floor of the building-fortress in the center has an entrance vestibule that is connected to the outside of the building on both sides and on its two sides there are four Iwan.
The rooms on the second floor have two Iwan separated from each other to the north and three joined to the south and two rooms with three doors to the rooms Iwan to the north and two symmetrical on the portico to the south.
Among these rooms there is a large hall called "Divānkhāneh"The Sofrekhāneh"With stucco decorations, mythological paintings of angels, lions, hunting and the character of Farhād" Kuhkan ", inspired by the stories of the work of Nizāmi" Seven portraits ".
Near this part there is a hall of mirrors whose walls and ceiling are decorated with mirrors. This room has mirror-like paintings that have a three-dimensional facade. The theme of the paintings is usually horse riding, the image of royal palaces and buildings with European designs, flowers and birds, and the exterior facade of the structure itself.
In the mirror room there are framed photos of some Bakhtiāri tribal chiefs. On both sides of the "Sofrekhāneh"And in the hall of mirrors, two small rooms have been made "Gushvāreh".
At the center of the tree-lined northern courtyard is a large multilateral stone basin with an Iranian design with four human sides placed on it, and with strong pressure from its mouth.
Symmetrically to the current building to the south of the inner courtyard of the part of the shāhneshin and also next to that there were other annexed buildings of which not many traces remain. This building, during its existence, has witnessed numerous events, among which the most important is the role played during the restoration of the constitutional revolution.
Many historical films have been filmed in this castle. In addition to Dekhodā, thinkers, poets, culture lovers and some contemporary Iranian political figures such as: Farrokhi, Yazdi, Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq, Vahidi Dastgerdi, Malek Al-sho'arā Bahār spent a period in this fortress.
In addition to the presence of well-known national faces, writers and authors of foreign travel diaries such as Bishop, Rawlinson and René d'Allemagne also stayed in this place. Today this castle houses the museum of clothes and objects related to the clothing of cities, villages, and important and particular areas of the Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari region, costume jewelry, trunks, boxes, ancient images related to traditional and local clothes and the museum of the stone in which 100 are exposed pieces of stones dating back to the Safavid, afsharide, zand, and qajaro periods which include coffins, columns, capitals, the stone of the mill, the holy water, the millstone, that of the door, the crusher, of squeezing the oil and the bases.
