Alanya Castle is one of the symbols of Alanya, the district of Antalya. It is located on a peninsula rising approximately 250 meters above the sea. The total length of its walls is 6.5 kilometers.
The castle was built in the Alanya settlement, which was called Kandeleri in ancient times, during the Hellenistic period. The history of the castle, whose current historical texture is a 13th-century Seljuk work, dates back to the Hellenistic period. The castle was built by the Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I, who took the city and rebuilt it in 1221. There are a total of 83 towers and 140 bastions in the castle. In the Middle Ages, approximately 1200 cisterns were built to provide the water needs of the city within the walls. Some of the cisterns are still in use. The walls were built in a planned manner, following Ehmedek, İçkale, Adam Ataçık, Cilvarda cape, Arap Evliyası and Esat Bastion, passing Tophane and Tersane and ending at Kızılkule. (Wikipedia)