Head to Turkey's Aegean coast, and the Bodrum Fortress and Museum of Underwater Archaeology will most actually seem in your sightseeing itinerary. Belonging to the peninsula of the identical title, this Fifteenth-century fort is the previous city's most putting sight and a preferred vacationer attraction.
Even you probably have seen it a thousand instances, this spectacular construction Jutting out of the shoreline into the Aegean Sea will all the time take your breath away. Showing on postcards of the area, and in main journey publications, the picturesque construction is a superb introduction into the area's illustrious historical past. Such is Its significance, not solely regionally however globally, it sits on the Turkey UNESCO World Heritage tentative checklist.
About Bodrum Fortress
The Knights of Stated John, also called the Rhodes knights constructed it, however It is usually known as Saint Peter's fort. All through its time, the fortress has served as a navy base, public baths and even a jail. If the fort partitions may discuss, the tales they'd inform could be the stuff of romance and legend. The fort's first designation as a haven for Asia Minor's Christians in the course of the Fifteenth-century crusades noticed Its inhabitants efficiently warding off Sultan Mehmed's troops - and some years later sheltering the sultan's son after a failed revolt.
The fort was fortified constantly as warfare expertise turned extra subtle. Nonetheless, the knights failed to guard the sea-facing fortifications successfully and within the sixteenth century the fort fell to 200,000 Ottoman troopers attacking from the Bay of Marmaris and the fort was handed over to the victors. Right this moment's incarnation because the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology is probably the most optimistic so far as guests are involved because it means we're all afforded a glance inside.
Constructed-up from ruins after the .62 authorities choice to transform the construction to a museum, the attraction has gone from energy to energy together with Turkey's tourism and the surge of curiosity in Bodrum property.
Do you know?
Bodrum was as soon as the traditional metropolis of Halicarnassus and residential to the mausoleum of the identical title, that was one of many seven wonders of the traditional world. Archaeological specialists have decided that the knights used 160,000 stones from this spectacular construction to construct the fort.
