Kizkalesi, which in Turkish means "Maiden Castle", a village located on the southeastern coast of Turkey, one of the warmest areas of the country. Prior to that, the town has not yet reached mass tourism, and nature has preserved its pristine here. However, the clean sea, long beaches with fine golden sand and the mild climate of this village, which allows to swim in the sea at least until October, every year attracts more and more tourists.

Selenium is over two thousand years, right before the village on the site of the ancient city was Korikos. Already in the II century BC, it was one of the most developed in the region. But after the devastating invasion of the Persian king Shapur of Sassanid life here almost stopped. Korikos several times rebuilt and later became one of the centers of Christianity on the Mediterranean coast. By the XI century the city had lost its former power and almost disappeared from the world map. It was at this time he attracted the attention of the rulers of Byzantium. They revived the town, in the fourth century, on the eastern outskirts of the modern city built a fortress "Korikos." And in 1104 on a small island, located 200 meters from the shore of the Byzantine admiral Estuzayesom castle was built "Kizkalesi". It is believed that he had previously been linked to the mainland by a road.

At that time, in the Mediterranean Sea piracy is rampant and is threatening many coastal towns. He suffers from pirate ships and Korikos. Then the head of the city became a famous orator and lawyer of the time Cicero. He was successful in the military and well-fought with the pirates. He offered to make a fortress "Korikos" and "Kizkalesi" part of a defense system. If there is danger of the invasion of enemy ships in port between them stretched a chain that prevented entry of ships into the harbor.

In 1244 this castle hosted the wedding of the Byzantine Emperor John III and daughter of Frederick II. At present, there are only buildings on three floors, but they are pretty well preserved and interesting to explore.

From the ruins of the castle is connected a beautiful legend. Once upon a time the king of the city Korikos daughter. She grew very beautiful and kind girl was loved as a father, and his subjects. Everything was fine as long as the city did not come fortuneteller. She tell fortunes King and then looked at his hand and shook princess. The king was afraid of such a reaction and asked what was wrong. Fortuneteller had to tell the cause of his trembling - palm she saw the daughter of the king as a young man died from a snake bite. The old king is very upset and decided to cheat fate. He ordered to build a castle for Princess middle of the sea, that no snake could not reach her. As the days passed after day, and the king with his daughter happy life. But once the fortress brought the usual fruit basket. She held out her hand to the juicy fruit was bitten by a snake - so was fulfilled the prediction of the fortune-teller.

Today the castle on the island gives the name of the city, located on the shore. To get to the island via boat. Boaters can take you to the castle on the water for a fee. You can also take a boat for rent. Castle can swim and pedalo.