Aliabad tower
The Aliabad Tower is a 14th century burial tower near the city of Bardaskan in the Iranian province of Razavi-Khorasan . The height of the tower is given as 18 meters, the outer circumference as 42 meters; the cone-shaped facade is made of brick . The design is reminiscent of the Towers of Silence of Zoroastrianism . The tower was added to the list of national monuments of Iran .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Douglas Pickett: Early Persian Tilework, The Medieval Flowering of Kashi. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8386-3365-X , p. 104.
- ↑ Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Crafts of Iran, May 19, 2011, http://www.ichto.ir/
Coordinates: 35 ° 17 ′ 31 ″ N , 58 ° 6 ′ 11.2 ″ E