Kolah Farangi Tower

Iran


This crumbling 7.5m octagonal tower at the river's edge was most likely a Sassanid navigational aid, though local lore has Shahpur’s slave driver watching the king's Roman prisoners from here as they worked on the nearby Band-e Mizan weir.


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