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Skipping the fortress at Silifke
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Driving the challenging coast road, D400--traffic, construction, great heights
above the Mediterranean... |
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For example; they are putting in a 4-lane highway, which will extend the Turkish
Riviera another hundred miles or so and bring much greater vitality to the eastern coast; but it's another 5 years off in my estimation |
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Also skipping the later medieval Armenian fortress, Softa...
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Finally reaching Mamure, the great old Crusader castle; built on much older
fortress sites, captured by the Ottomans in the 14th century; still very much intact, and impressively large, said to be the largest on Turkey's Mediterranean |
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Three sides of it are on the sea
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View from one of the interior courtyards; note lack of handrails on stairs
leading to battlements |
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Its mountainous backdrop
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Seaward view
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Its main tower on the left
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Climbing the tower
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Another interior view--hall off the tower
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View from the tower; can't get the whole castle onto one frame
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Staircase back down
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One more view
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1 comment:
I would have loved to see this castle. Maybe next trip to Turkey! I just read a book about Scotland that noted the lack of handrails in the castles...so that invaders could be pushed off the staircases! We noticed very steep staircases in Japan and were told that it made it harder for invaders to fight up the stairs. Interesting architectural details!
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