Culture of Rumeli Fortress
The Rumeli Fortress is a 250 meters long and 130 meters wide at its longest with walls surrounding it. It has three large towers and a small one (kule) along with other t... Read More
Architecture of the Fortress of Rumeli
The Rumeli Fortress is a 250 meters long and 130 meters wide at its longest with walls surrounding it. It has three large towers and a small one (kule) along with other thirteen small watchtowers (burç). The towers have the names of their vizier donors, who had also supervised the construction. Next to each of the three large towers, there are three entrances.
The three large towers have peripheries of 23.3 meters, 23.8 meters and 26.70 meters and their heights are 35, 33.3 and 25.30 meters without the conical roofs that once crowned the towers. Two of them are round while the last one is twelve-sided on the exterior. At the southwest tower, and also at a smaller tower at the southeast corner, there are inscriptive plaques in Arabic referring to Zaganos Pasa and hence the tower was named after him. Between each tower, there were wooden floors, however, today only the Saruca Pasa Tower retains its wooden floors. There are crenellations at the top of all towers, watchtowers and walls.
There are wooden houses that were built for the soldiers and a small mosque, endowed by Mehmed II at the time of construction. Only the minaret shaft remains of the original mosque, whereas the small mescid added in the mid 16th century is no longer there. Only one wall-fountain exists from the three wall-fountains that were used to distribute the water supplied to the fortress from a large cistern underneath the mosque.
The three large towers have peripheries of 23.3 meters, 23.8 meters and 26.70 meters and their heights are 35, 33.3 and 25.30 meters without the conical roofs that once crowned the towers. Two of them are round while the last one is twelve-sided on the exterior. At the southwest tower, and also at a smaller tower at the southeast corner, there are inscriptive plaques in Arabic referring to Zaganos Pasa and hence the tower was named after him. Between each tower, there were wooden floors, however, today only the Saruca Pasa Tower retains its wooden floors. There are crenellations at the top of all towers, watchtowers and walls.
There are wooden houses that were built for the soldiers and a small mosque, endowed by Mehmed II at the time of construction. Only the minaret shaft remains of the original mosque, whereas the small mescid added in the mid 16th century is no longer there. Only one wall-fountain exists from the three wall-fountains that were used to distribute the water supplied to the fortress from a large cistern underneath the mosque.
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