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İstanbul, 26.11.2006
Der Leanderturm (türk. Kız kulesi, „Mädchenturm“), ein Leuchtturm aus dem 18. Jahrhundert, liegt in Istanbul einige hundert Meter vor Üsküdar auf einer kleinen Insel im Bosporus.
Hier soll das eine Ende der großen Kette befestigt worden sein, die bei den Angriffen auf Byzanz über den Bosporus gespannt wurde. Das andere Ende hing an einem Turm des Mangana-Palastes. Der Turm diente im Laufe der Zeit als Leuchtturm, optischer Telegraf, Quarantänestation, Zollhaus und Alterssitz für Seeoffiziere. Heute beherbergt er ein Restaurant. Seine heutige Gestalt geht auf das späte 18. Jahrhundert zurück.
Die europäische Bezeichnung „Leanderturm“ geht auf einen antiken Stoff zurück, der nicht im Bosporus, sondern in den Dardanellen lokalisiert ist: Der Überlieferung nach schwamm Leander jede Nacht zu seiner geliebten Hero durch den Hellespont, bis eines Nachts die Fackel, die ihm den Weg wies, erloschen war. Er verlor die Orientierung und ertrank. Hero warf sich ebenfalls in die Fluten, als sie ihren toten Geliebten am Ufer fand.
Der türkische Name „Mädchenturm“ leitet sich von der Legende einer Prinzessin ab, der ein Wahrsager den Tod durch Vergiftung vorausgesagt habe und die daraufhin von ihrem Vater in den Turm eingeschlossen worden sei. Dort konnte sie ihrem Schicksal nur leider nicht entgehen und wurde schließlich durch eine Schlange, welche in einen Obstkorb zu ihr gelangt war, getötet.
Der Turm war ein Drehort für den James-Bond-Film Die Welt ist nicht genug, wo er Bonds Gegenspielerin Elektra King (Sophie Marceau) als Versteck dient.
Legend
There are many legends about the construction of the tower and its location. According to the most popular Turkish legend, a sultan had a much beloved daughter. One day, an oracle prophecised that she would die on her 18th birthday. The sultan, in an effort to thwart his daughter's early demise, had the tower built in the middle of the Bosphorus to protect his daughter until after her 18th birthday. The daughter was placed in the tower, where she was frequently visited only by her father.
On the daughter's 18th birthday, the sultan brings a basket of fruit as a birthday gift. Upon inspecting the basket, a poisonous snake that had been hiding amongst the fruit bites her and the daughter dies, just as predicted. Hence the name Maiden's Tower.
The older name Leander's Tower comes from another story about a maiden: the ancient Greek myth of Hero and Leander. Hero was a priestess of Aphrodite who lived in a tower at Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont (Dardanelles). Leander (Leandros), a young man from Abydos on the other side of the strait, fell in love with her and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp every night at the top of her tower to guide his way.
Succumbing to Leander's soft words, and to his argument that Aphrodite, as goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her. This routine lasted through the warm summer. But one stormy winter night, the waves tossed Leander in the sea and the breezes blew out Hero's light, and Leander lost his way, and was drowned. Hero threw herself from the tower in grief and died as well. The name Maiden's Tower might also have its origins in this ancient story.
Due to the vicinity and similarity between the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, Leander's story was attributed to the tower by the ancient Greeks and later the Byzantines.
The tower was featured in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.
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Water Mill
En este privilegiado lugar de la parroquia de Tornón, en la ria de Villaviciosa, Asturias, se hizo un molino de marea o aceña, rodeado de agua en plea mar, del que recibe su nombre, actualmente transformado en villa de recreo.
Privileged place in the parish of Tornon in the Ria de Villaviciosa , became a tide mill, surrounded by water at sea plea , which gets its name , now transformed into recreational house.