Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The stories of Maiden Tower (In Istanbul)




The story I want to write about sad stories about Maiden Tower.Maiden tower is at the middle of the sea in Istanbul.First story is Hero's and Leondros's bad ending love story.Hero was a nun of Afrodit and she was banned to love by Afrodit.Many years later She had to go to the Afrodit's temple for a ceremony and she met with Leondros.They fell in love to each other.Leondros and Hero've started to make intentions to meet.Hero begun to hold up her tower's lights on for Leondros to find her tower's way easliy at nights,on the sea,by swimming.Leondros was swimming every nights to meet with his deathly love Hero,but oneday Hero's lights turned off at night and Leondros couldn't find the way of the Maiden Tower in the dark sea and he smothered.And when Hero realized his love died,she left herself to the dark sea from Maiden Tower.That was the one of the legend of Maiden tower.

Another one is about father and his daughter's story.One of the King's future teller tells him when his daugther becomes an 18 year old girl,she is going to die by snakebite.So he desided to fix the tower which is middle of the sea and put her daughter there to live safety.Yet people can't change the fate of life.Oneday a punnet was sended to her by someone.There was a snake inside of the punnet,but she couldn't see the snake and snake bite her and she directly died.This one is the most famous story of Maiden Tower.Now Maiden Tower is a restaurant and eating there is pretty expensive,but I believe It's worth it...

6 comments:

  1. Those are both wonderful stories, Asye. How old it the building? Have you eaten in the restaurant. It must be beautiful to be in the middle of the sea.

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  2. I've never eat there because my budget is not that enough..Of course it's amazing.It had been build around 341 B.C!!

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  3. Wow! It's amazing how old things are in other parts of the world. In the U.S., if something is 250 years old, we think of it as ancient!

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  4. I ate There ..! It's so cool ..! We ate Fish and had wine with it ..! You should go and see Istanbul For sure :)

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  5. The most affectional things are for me its stories,its history ,and looking at it from away...And realizing how alone she is.That's why her name is Maiden..

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  6. I Don't Think She is Alone ..! You have to Look carefully To see ..! Maybe Thats what you think from inside and thats what I'm thinking ..! Do you know what ayse ?? When I went there I saw families , duckies , Friends ..! They are sharing Everything with Her :) Their Love , family , friendship and everything I dont think she is alone

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