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Fortress-palace built atop a 200-meter volcanic plug

Climbing up the modern stairway on the west face of the rock, the visitor encounters the long and vaguely Chinese-looking "mirror wall" seen here in the lower left of the photo. Its smooth, plastered
Climbing up the modern stairway on the west face of the rock, the visitor encounters the long and vaguely Chinese-looking "mirror wall" seen here in the lower left of the photo. Its smooth,… © Michael Gunther, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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