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Aluston fortress tower

Aluston fortress tower

Byzantine fortress Aluston

Crimea, Alushta

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Aluston fortress tower

Byzantine fortress Aluston

Crimea, Alushta

You can go to the tower from the embankment along the street. 15 April. Before the war, this street had a different name - Genoese. The new one was given in honor of the day of the liberation of the city from the Nazi invaders on April 15, 1944.

The Aluston fortress was built in the 6th century by the Byzantines. Its area was originally approximately 0.25 hectares. Growing, it gradually grew into a small fortified city. The territory of the fortress was densely built up with small houses. The fortress protected the coast from nomads, controlled the harbor and ensured the safety of merchant ships.

In 1380-1390, the Genoese, who owned Alushta, erected a new outer ring of fortress walls with three towers. The fortification consisted of two lines - the citadel and the outer defensive wall, which in plan was an irregularly shaped quadrangle.

The preserved and restored round tower Ashaga-Kule (Lower Tower) closed the line from the south. The diameter of the tower is 8 m, the height is up to 16 m. Unfortunately, the sightseeing of the monument is hampered by unprepossessing buildings, which densely surrounded the fortress from all sides.
From the north, the fortifications were covered by a high hexagonal tower Chatal-Kule (Horned Tower), so named, apparently because it ended with a battlemented parapet. In the center of the northeastern defensive line was the rectangular tower Orta-Kule (Middle Tower). The remains of it can be seen on the street. Volodarsky.
As excavations have shown, the fortress was destroyed and rebuilt more than once in its history, until the Turks, having captured it in 1475, burned it down, after which it was no longer restored. The city has turned into a small settlement.

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Iren48

Traveled 9 years ago

Rating 4

Not much to look at

Being in Alushta, we saw the designation "Genoese fortress" on one of the signs. This loud name, as it turned out, denotes one single unfortunate surviving tower, plastered, moreover, from all sides with khatynki. All in all, not much to see.→

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