Diyarbakir city walls
Diyarbakir castle
surrounding the natural land of Diyarbakir city seperated to 2 parts and known
as exterior and interior castle. Partly height
of the walls reach to 12 mt and thicknes of wall to 3 to 5 mt extended 5 km
long around the city. On the bastions of city walls , scripts, twinheaded
eagle and lion reliefs take an attention
by visitors. The four gates of to
exterior castle; Harput gate, Urfa gate, Mardit gate and Dicle(new) gate still
sustain the importance. Located to
eastside of the Mardin gate and oldest bastion called Keci(goat) bastion built
by 11 vaults and corridors. Another
bastion called Nur has many figures depicting the running horse, woman, lion and
deer.
City walls enable many
oppurtinities to get in and out of the city from different directions.