Muğla Governor Orhan Tavlı examined the ongoing works with the support of Muğla Governorship at Beçin Castle and Ruins in Milas District within the scope of developing alternative tourism and increasing alternative tourism diversity.
In Beçin, where archaeological excavations have been carried out for 5 months with the support of the Investment Monitoring and Coordination Directorate of the Muğla Governorship, which is 12 km from the Milas district, Turkish-Islamic artifacts from ancient times to the Menteşeoğulları Principality and the Ottoman Empire can be seen together.
When you go up the road leading to the city, you can reach the city square surrounded by Ahmed Gazi Madrasa, Orhan Mosque, tombs, Hanikâh, Kızılhan and Domed Fountain. The street texture, which has been revealed in recent years, offers very valuable information in terms of showing the formation of the Medieval Turkish city.
Beçin Castle, which was the science center of the Menteşe Principality, and its ruins, have been restored and brought into cultural tourism with the works carried out in the past years.
Ahmed Gazi Madrasa, one of the most important structures of the Beçin City and the Menteşe Principality and built in 1375 by the Menteşe Bey, Sultan of the Coasts, Ahmed Gazi Madrasa, welcomes its visitors today as the Stone Works Museum.
In the Ahmed Gazi Madrasa Stone Works Museum, apart from the stone works, 25 ethnographic works are exhibited in the educational rooms of the madrasah. Apart from the exhibition, there is a cinevision room, miniatures of Anatolian madrasah examples and a reenactment room in the museum.
In order to increase the cultural tourism potential in the area, where archaeological excavation, restoration and renovation works, which are carried out with a holistic perspective, are accelerated, social areas such as a parking lot, welcome center, cafeteria, which can also serve for tour buses, are being renewed, while transportation to Beçin Castle is made easier.
While the castle and road lightings are improved, Beçin Castle becomes more visible from the Bodrum highway, and cultural tourism activity in the region is expected to increase after the completion of the works.
Governor Orhan Tavlı, who stated that Beçin Castle and City, which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in 2012, is one of the important historical and cultural values of our city, said, “Beçin Castle offers the most beautiful examples of Seljuk Architecture. There are many important works that have survived to the present day in Beçin, which was one of the important centers in the Turkish-Islamic period settlement, which was the capital of the Menteşe Principality. I believe that our efforts to develop our historical and cultural values remaining in the lands we live on from the ancient period, Seljuk and Ottoman periods will be rewarded in a short time.”