15 Şubat 2009 Pazar

Alanya Sightseeing.

The main attraction is considered Alanian Alanya castle, which is the only surviving Seljuk fortress in the world. Built by Sultan Aladdin Keykubat at the beginning of the XIII century, the fortress is situated on a huge serving of sea rocky cape and has three series of walls, 83 towers and 140 bastions. For its walls are many well-preserved monuments, such as the Mosque of Suleiman Magnificent, Akshabe Sultun shrine, Sultan Aladdin's palace, the palace Siii Zeynep etc.
On the opposite side of the cape is a defensive tower, which is also called «Red Tower» (Kizil Kule). The tower was erected as a symbol of the Turkish domination of the seas, and its name it must reddish stone, which built its walls. This huge octagonal building is 33 m in height and consists of 5 floors. Now it houses the Ethnographical Museum of the walls, and from the terrace on the roof you can enjoy a view of the eastern part of the city.
Near the castle is no less famous Ship yard, or Tersane built by the Seljuks in 1228. This facility consists of a directed seaward galleries about 40 meters deep Tersane considered the most reliable outpost of the fleet on the south coast - is able to hide from unwanted guests a fleet. In our time here to build a small court.
In the stone walls of the shore below the castle, there are many sea caves and grottoes, the greater part of which of which are accessible only by boat. However, the most famous of them - Damlatash grotto, age several thousand years, you can walk on foot. Groth full set of impressive stalactites and stalagmites, and the conditions created by nature, is very favorable for the treatment of asthma and other respiratory diseases.
No less interesting and other marine caves: e.g. Kizlar Magarasi, which, according to the legend, the pirates hid women abducted during raids, as well as Phosphoric Cave, named so because of the interesting lighting effects.
Not far from Alanya also has many interesting places to visit for tourists:
Ruins Sedry give an excellent opportunity to inspect the ruins of a Roman city founded in the III century. BC Today many well-preserved mosaics and columns, triumphal arch, and three swimming pools, the service is likely to store drinking water.
Aaital - a port city, famous for its well-preserved fortress in which to examine the whole of ancient street, bath, acropolis, necropolis, numerous tombs.
At 35 km from Alanya, near to the Alara River is Alarsky yard - the architectural ensemble, created in 1232 Aladdin Keykubat. Here you can look at an ancient caravanserai, a mosque, a chapel, a spring and a bath. A 15 km from Alanya, on the way to Antalya, located Sharavsins caravanserai built in the middle of XIII century, the son of Sultan Aladdin Keykubat.

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