Alanya Shipyard and Tophane
Its construction was started in 1228 near Kızılkule, six years after the Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Alaeddin Keykubad I took the city, and it was completed in a year. The sea-facing façade of the shipyard, which consists of five arched cells, is 56.5 meters and its depth is 44 meters. The location chosen for the shipyard is planned to make the most of daylight. The inscription on the entrance gate of the shipyard bears the coat of arms of Sultan Keykubat and is decorated with rosettes.
Alanya Shipyard is the first Seljuk shipyard in the Mediterranean. Alaaddin Keykubat, who had the Sinop Shipyard built in the Black Sea before, took the title of "sultan of two seas" with Alanya Shipyard. There is a mosque on one side of the shipyard and a guard room on the other. In one of the eyes there is a well that has been blinded in time. Access to the Shipyard, which can be reached by boat from the sea or by walking from the walls next to the Red Tower, is free of charge.
Tophane: Adjacent to the Shipyard is Tophane, which was built on a rock 10 meters high from the sea to protect the shipyard. It is known that cannons were poured for warships in the three-storey and rectangular planned structure, which was built in 1228 from cut stone.
Studies are continuing to transform the Shipyard and Tophane into a Maritime Museum by the Ministry of Culture and Alanya Municipality."
