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About Castle Alanya
Alanya - The Historical Town Center It would be most becoming to start the tour in the historical town center of Alanya from the harbor. Starting a tour from Kizil Kule (the Red Tower), you can make your way towards the Shipyard, the middle part of the castle and the inner castle on the top.Kizil Kule (Red Tower)-The Shipyard
Regarded as the most attractive architectural structure of Alanya and almost a symbol of the town , Kizil Kule was commissioned by Alaeddin Keykubat , the Seljukid Sultan in 1226, and called Kizil Kule for the red (Turkish : kizil) bricks used in the construction. Kizil Kule is 33 m. High having an octagonal plan with five storeys. The bottom floor of the tower, where one pays an entrance fee, is used as an annex of Alanya Museum for exhibition of ethnographic works of art. You can see costumes of the Ottoman period, hand-woven textiles of the region and looms where these handicrafts were produced among the works of art exhibited. leaving the tower behind, follow the pathway by the walls for a further 200 m after going down the stairs; you will reach the shipyard, again built during Sultan Keykubat's period. The shipyard was built two years after the tower and is the only remaining shipyard from the Seljuks. It has five docks each of 7 m. Widht and 43 m. Depth all opening to the sea. Alanya Castle After Kizil Kule and the Shipyard, Alanya Castle follows as part of the tour. It takes 45 minute walk to climb up the castle. Don't miss to see Arap Evliyasi which was built as a church in the 11th century and then converted into a mosque; the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Bedesten (market place) beside the mosque, resored and now used as a restaurant,bar and hotel, Ehmendek where the commander of the castle resided, little houses of Alanya remaining from the Seljuks and the Ottomans, Akºebe Sultan Masjid and Tomb. You can then go up the Inner Castle. Entrance to the Inner Castle is charged. The entrance gate opens to the large courtyard where on the l...
Alanya - The Historical Town Center It would be most becoming to start the tour in the historical town center of Alanya from the harbor. Starting a tour from Kizil Kule (the Red Tower), you can make your way towards the Shipyard, the middle part of the castle and the inner castle on the top.Kizil Kule (Red Tower)-The Shipyard
Regarded as the most attractive architectural structure of Alanya and almost a symbol of the town , Kizil Kule was commissioned by Alaeddin Keykubat , the Seljukid Sultan in 1226, and called Kizil Kule for the red (Turkish : kizil) bricks used in the construction. Kizil Kule is 33 m. High having an octagonal plan with five storeys. The bottom floor of the tower, where one pays an entrance fee, is used as an annex of Alanya Museum for exhibition of ethnographic works of art. You can see costumes of the Ottoman period, hand-woven textiles of the region and looms where these handicrafts were produced among the works of art exhibited. leaving the tower behind, follow the pathway by the walls for a further 200 m after going down the stairs; you will reach the shipyard, again built during Sultan Keykubat's period. The shipyard was built two years after the tower and is the only remaining shipyard from the Seljuks. It has five docks each of 7 m. Widht and 43 m. Depth all opening to the sea. Alanya Castle After Kizil Kule and the Shipyard, Alanya Castle follows as part of the tour. It takes 45 minute walk to climb up the castle. Don't miss to see Arap Evliyasi which was built as a church in the 11th century and then converted into a mosque; the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Bedesten (market place) beside the mosque, resored and now used as a restaurant,bar and hotel, Ehmendek where the commander of the castle resided, little houses of Alanya remaining from the Seljuks and the Ottomans, Akºebe Sultan Masjid and Tomb. You can then go up the Inner Castle. Entrance to the Inner Castle is charged. The entrance gate opens to the large courtyard where on the l...
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