- Type
- Castle
- Built
- c. 1404 · 15th century
- Location
- Muğla, Türkiye
- Coordinates
- 37.0317°, 27.4294°
History
Early in the 15th century the Knights Hospitaller of Rhodes occupied a headland in ancient Halicarnassus, and around 1404, under Grand Master Philibert de Naillac, they began building the Castle of St Peter. The work was directed by the German knight Heinrich Schlegelholt, and the building material included blocks and reliefs taken from the ruins of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The order's national tongues, among them the English, French, Italian and German, each raised their own tower. In 1522, after the fall of Rhodes, the knights handed the castle over to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Since the 1960s it has housed the Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
What to see
Beyond a series of gates and courtyards rise the towers: the English Tower with the knights' coats of arms, the French, Italian, German and Snake towers. The museum halls display finds from wrecks lost off the Turkish coast, including a reconstruction of the Uluburun ship of the 14th century BC with its cargo of copper and tin, and a medieval ship that carried glass. The walls look out over both of Bodrum's bays, the marina and the town's white houses.
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