Category: Bodrum

The Museum of Bodrum, Bodrum Museum is housed in Bodrum Castle and was opened to the public in 1964. Bodrum Castle was built in the XV century by the St. Jean Chevaliers who came here from Rhodes, in the name of St. Peter of Navarro. Stones from the famous Mausoleum of old Halicarnassus were used

UNDERWATER WORKS IN BODRUM, For many years sponge divers have collected sponges from the shores of the Aegean. It is a traditional trade by which they earn their living. Byways and means are known only to them, they dive to depths of forty fathoms and gather up raw sponges, which they then bring to shore