5 Sights in Bodrum, Turkey (with Map and Images)

Bodrum Castle is a historical fortification located in southwest Turkey in the port city of Bodrum, built from 1402 onwards, by the Knights of St John as the Castle of St. Peter or Petronium. A transnational effort, it has four towers known as the English, French, German, and Italian towers, bearing the names of the nations responsible for their construction. The chapel was built around 1407 and the first walls completed in 1437. The castle started reconstruction in the late 14th century, only to be taken over by the Islamic Ottoman Empire in 1523. The chapel was converted to a mosque, and a minaret was added. The castle remained under the empire for almost 400 years. After remaining empty following World War I, in the early 1960s, the castle became the home for the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. In 2016 it was inscribed in the UNESCO Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Turkey.

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Mindos Gate is a historical site located near Bodrum. The Mindos Gate, which formed an important point of the city walls of Halicarnassus, is located to the west of Bodrum city center today. The western walls of the city were strengthened with towers as they passed through the plain. The dimensions of the towers are approximately 7x8.5 meters. One of the two towers of the Mindos gate has survived to the present day almost at its original height. This gate is known as the Mindos gate because it is in the direction of the ancient city of Myndos, which is located at the tip of the peninsula. Its local name is Diki.

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The Aya Nikola Church was built in 1780 or 1873 by dedication to St. Nikola, and in 1969, a controlled Greek Orthodox church, resulting in a rotten report from the University of Pamukkale. The remains of the church are located on Hilmi Uran Square, located on Republic Street. After the exchange of Turkey-Greece population, the church was used as a sponge tank, cinema and public education centre. There are claims that the church's destruction decision was taken as a result of the pressures of the Turkish government and was carried out to erase the Greek cultural heritage in Turkey.

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The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene. Its elevated tomb structure is derived from the tombs of neighbouring Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed c. 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument.

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The Theatre at Halicarnassus, also known as Bodrum Antique Theatre, is a 4th-century BC Greco-Roman theatre located in Bodrum, Turkey. The theatre is considered to be built in a similar style to Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus.

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