Destiny?
Of all the stories around the Maiden Tower (Kız kulesi), the tale of the girl placed here by her father to escape her fate seems the most popular. Of course, the snake still bit her... 😕
Some info from a guide site...which includes other legends about it.
www.greatistanbul.com/kizkulesi.html
"Kizkulesi is located off the coast of Salacak neighborhood in Üsküdar district, at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus. It literally means "Maiden's Tower" in Turkish. The name comes from a legend: the Byzantine emperor heard a prophecy telling him that his beloved daughter would die at the age of 18 by a snake. So he decided to put her in this tower built on a rock on the Bosphorus isolated from the land thus no snake could kill her. But she couldn't escape from her destiny after all, a snake hidden in a fruit basket brought from the city bit the princess and killed her."
Destiny?
Of all the stories around the Maiden Tower (Kız kulesi), the tale of the girl placed here by her father to escape her fate seems the most popular. Of course, the snake still bit her... 😕
Some info from a guide site...which includes other legends about it.
www.greatistanbul.com/kizkulesi.html
"Kizkulesi is located off the coast of Salacak neighborhood in Üsküdar district, at the southern entrance of the Bosphorus. It literally means "Maiden's Tower" in Turkish. The name comes from a legend: the Byzantine emperor heard a prophecy telling him that his beloved daughter would die at the age of 18 by a snake. So he decided to put her in this tower built on a rock on the Bosphorus isolated from the land thus no snake could kill her. But she couldn't escape from her destiny after all, a snake hidden in a fruit basket brought from the city bit the princess and killed her."