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About Bodrum
Historical places and museums:
- Bodrum Castle with
it's many museums
- The Mausoleum
- Mindos Gate
- Zeki Muren Museum
Bodrum Castle
Bodrum Castle was built by Knights of Rhodes in honour
of
St. Peter between 1415-1437. The stones and marbles of the
Mausoleum, which is one of the seven wonders of ancient
world and destroyed by an earthquake in 14th century, were
used for the construction of the castle. There are five main
towers, reflecting the architectural styles of the nations
by whom tthey were constructed ,called English Tower, French
Tower,Spanish Tower,Italien Tower and German TowerThe
Knights built the walls facing the sea thin, and fortified
the walls facing the land, as they had expected attacks from
the land.
Bodrum was taken by the
Turks in 1523. After 1895, the castle was used as a prison.It
was coverted into a museum, in which, especially the
findings of underwater archeology, Mycenean, Hellenistic,
Roman and Byzantium artifacts are displayed in different
sections in chronogical order since 1960.
In the Gothic chapel in
the courtyard, findins from the Bronze Age are exhibited
dating back 3000-2000 years,discovered in this region of
objects and weapons near Bodrum - Ortakent. In the section
to the right of the chapel are exhibited in their original
position the environs of the Gelidonya Wreck, which had
loaded copper ignots, dating back to 1200 B.C. and which was
discovered by underwater excavations off-shore the Cape
Gelidonya, under direction of Prof. Dr. George Bass in 1960.
In the south of the chapel,
adjoining the castle wall a Turkish Bath and old building
where the bathing tradition is shown in details.
Boat Trips
Boat trips leave everday from 11:00-17:30pm you can visit
Black Island and it's volcanic hot springs,Ada Bogazi and
the Aquarium where you can swim with the fish, Orak Island
and Rabbit Nose, North Wind Bay and German Bay many beach.
Bodrum Night Life
* Halikarnas: Bodrum's famous outdoor night club with it's
world class DJ's theme parites and live shows, opens from
10pm till 5am
* Bodrum Night Club: Dance
on the glass floor of the catamaran under the Octupus the
largest floating club in the world. Departs at 12am till
early morning.
Bodrum has many bars, night clubs, discos and turkish
cultural shows to tantilies anyh bodies tastes
Bodrum Peninsula beaches
and coastal bays Gumbet,Bitez Ortakent,Bagla,Aspat,Karaincir,Akyarlar,Turgutreis,
Kadikalesi, Gumusluk,Yalikavak,Gundogan,Gol-Turkbuku,Torba
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