Places to Visit

 

TERSANE   (THE SHIPYARDS)

 

Situated to the south of the Red Tower, right by the sea, there is a covered building where the big warships of the age were built in complete security.

 

After Sinop on the black sea coast, the Seljuk's used this Shipyard as a naval base and sailed the Mediterranean. Following the construction of this dockyard, Alaaddin Keykubat received the title "Sultan of the two seas "

The rectangular structure measures 40 by 57 meters and consists of vaulted galleries where ships were built. The galleries are connected to each other by four pointed-arches. It's facade and all the weight-carrying elements are built of large, cut stone blocks, and the vaults of baked bricks.

ALARA FORTRESS

 

A little further from the Şarapsa Hostel, at the and of the 9 km long road is the Alara Stream which runs through a deep, narrow valley.

 

On one side of the stream, on a rocky cliff stands the Alara Fortress. Behind the fortress is steep cliff down to the stream.

 

The Alara stream, which originates between the mountains covered with green forests runs at the foot of the cliff below the fortress and serpentines towards the sea.

 

ALARA HOSTEL

 

Alara Hostel was the second hostel after Şarapsa on the way from Alaiye to Antalya and Konya. It is an unusual Seljuk monument since it also served a religious function as a place where certain dervishes lived in seclusion.

 

The rectangular structure measures 38 by 50 meters and except for its facade, it is constructed of cut stones. Various signs identifying the master stonecutters are seen on these cut stones.

 

Rectangular and triangular pillars support the three facades of the structure.

 

The plain portal with a low arch, in the middle of the northern facade, is the entrance to the hostel. Above the entrance there is an inscription of six lines in Arabic.

 

Two schematic lion heads decorate the inscription.

 

 

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