Something About the Yedikule Hisarı

Seven days in its dungeon makes one weak.

I’m ready to wrap up Turkey week and so I’ll save for later a few other interesting sights. Leftovers. Like those yams sitting in the refrigerator. Those will likely be there for another seven days. Kinda-sorta mumtāz? Eh.

And since we’re on the subject of seven I’ll point out the Yedikule Fortress, or Fortress of the Seven Towers, southwest of where the action in The Trolley to Yesterday takes places. But the Duston Heights boys didn’t see this, even when they flew out to the Isle of the Dead. Why? Sultan Mehmed II commissioned its construction in 1458, a mere five years after the conquest of Constantinople.

Yedikule was built on the shores of the Marmara Sea, at what was formerly the principal entrance gate to the city. The seven-tower complex was created by adding new towers and fully enclosing a section of the ancient Walls of Constantinople, including the two twin towers that originally constituted the triumphal Golden Gate built by Roman Emperors Theodosius I and Theodosius II. The fortress later was the home of a royal dungeon until it was repurposed as a museum in 1895.

So where would you want to go when you get to Istanbul?