{"id":144,"date":"2020-04-13T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site143.blogs.americavip.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2020-04-13T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T13:22:10","slug":"maidens-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/2020\/04\/13\/maidens-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Maiden\u2019s Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_145\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-image-145 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Maidens-Tower-02-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"Maiden\u2019s Tower\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Maidens-Tower-02-1024x672.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Maidens-Tower-02-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Maidens-Tower-02-768x504.jpg 768w, http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/144\/files\/sites\/144\/2020\/04\/Turkey-VIP-Maidens-Tower-02.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maiden\u2019s Tower<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Maiden\u2019s Tower (\u00dcsk\u00fcdar Salacak Mevkii, \u00dcsk\u00fcdar\/\u0130stanbul) \u2013 a.k.a. \u201cKiz Kulesi\u201d, this site is located off the coast of Salacak neighborhood within Istanbul\u2019s \u00dcsk\u00fcdar district (at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus). The name comes from a legend: the Byzantine emperor heard a prophecy telling him that his beloved daughter would die at the age of 18 by a snake. So he decided to put her in this tower built on a rock on the Bosphorus isolated from the land thus no snake could kill her. But she couldn&#8217;t escape from her destiny after all, a snake hidden in a fruit basket brought from the city bit the princess and killed her.<\/p>\n<p>After several restorations in wood and stone, Emperor Alexius Comnenos built a strong defense tower in the 12th century AD calling it Arcla, meaning &#8220;Small Tower&#8221;. The tower was used as a lighthouse and control tower also during the Ottoman period after the Conquest of Constantinople. Final restoration was done in 1998 and opened as a restaurant<\/p>\n<p>How to get there: It\u2019s possible to take a boat from either from Kabata\u015f or Salacak (on the road between Uskudar and Harem) for 20 TL. It takes 10 minutes from Kabata\u015f and less than a minute from \u00dcsk\u00fcdar. Make sure to check the time schedule of the boat service in advance. Hours: 10:00 am \u2013 6:45 pm (Saturday), 9:15 am \u2013 6:45 pm (Sunday). Closed on Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maiden\u2019s Tower (\u00dcsk\u00fcdar Salacak Mevkii, \u00dcsk\u00fcdar\/\u0130stanbul) \u2013 a.k.a. \u201cKiz Kulesi\u201d, this site is located off the coast of Salacak neighborhood within Istanbul\u2019s \u00dcsk\u00fcdar district (at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus). The name comes from a legend: the Byzantine emperor heard a prophecy telling him that his beloved daughter would die at the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.turkeyvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}