Temporary military fortified position
Sangar
A sangar is a temporary fortified position with a breastwork originally constructed of stones, and now built of sandbags, gabions or similar materials.
Sangars are normally constructed in terrain where the digging of trenches would not be practicable. The term is still frequently used by the British Army, but has now been extended to cover a wider range of small fortified positions.
How locals move
Getting around Sangar the local way
- Get inYou can easily find shared taxis to city center, it costs around 30,000 rials.
- Get inShared taxis (Savaris) plow the Caspian coast, so getting to Rasht from anywhere in that area is easy.
- Get inA good choice for a trip from Tehran would be a shared taxi or bus to Chalus, a spectacular route through the Alborz mountains and then a savari from Chalus to Rasht.
From Wikivoyage: Rasht, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Nick / from United Kingdom (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.