Maiden’s Tower Legends

Admiral’s pain …

One of the oldest rumors about the Maiden’s Tower dates back to the time when istanbul was under the sovereignty of Athens. According to this rumor, the kingdom of Athens sends forty ships under the command of Admiral Hares to protect istanbul from the possibility of Philip of Macedon to attack istanbul. When Haral’s beloved wife, Damalys, dies, he buries his wife in a grave where they rock cliffs around here …

Leandra’s love…

According to another legend, a teenager named Leandra falls in love with a girl here. She fires a bon fire on the rocks of the Maiden’s Tower with her lover every night to show Leandra a swim across the opposite shore to meet her lover. Young girl on a stormy night goes out in the fire Leandra cannot find the cliffs and loses its way. He drowns in the cool and dark waters of the Bosphorus. Leandra’s lover who can’t stand the death puts an end to his own life …

Snake and death…

The legend about the Byzantine period ends with a ‘bitter end’ as in the old Greek story. The treasure, ‘the death of her beloved daughter will be a snake’ that gives the king a bad news … The king, his daughter to keep the snakes of the Tower of the Rock built on a house, and her daughter closes here. But a young officer falls in love with the king’s daughter. One day, the young officer prepares a bunch of flowers to offer to the princess. A snake hidden in a bunch of flowers bursts and kills the unfortunate princess.