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posted by kgleper on 31 August 2011 at 10:57
No longer a bloody battle scene, today the gate is the best way to enter the city, not its most heavily fortified!!
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Old Town
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posted by wfranks on 13 July 2011 at 12:16
This is the big entrance to the old town, the only way to arrive if you want to see it properly! Go through and explore the old narrow streets and see what you can find for yourself.
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Turgutreis Caddesi
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posted by mkifer on 11 May 2011 at 10:38
I had a feeling of being very small and insignificant when I was here at the gate and would not have liked to be an attacker trying to get through the walls! Totally majestic.
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Turgutreis Caddesi, on the west side of the old town
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posted by fstainforth on 7 April 2011 at 10:21
It's amazing that this magnificent gate has lasted from the Helicarnassus period, especially when you think that the other 7km of the walls have been destroyed over time. Fabulous place.
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Old town
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posted by qhouston on 8 November 2010 at 15:05
My man and me went here to see the gate to the old city and it just astonishing to see the size of the fortifications! Just imagining needing that and living in a walled city under siege is mental! Glad I live in a time where invading armies don't just show up one day and start attacking the city gates!! Great place to come and see, and get some perspective on history.
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Old town, on the east of the town, everyone know where it is I'm bad at remembering directions.
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Bodrum
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