Birecik Castle

The castle was restored in 2014.

It is actually a very beautiful and historical place, but it needs urgent maintenance.

Birecik Castle was built during the Assyrian times and was repaired in various periods. There are 12 bastions on its walls, which are made of large cut stones and reach 30-40 m in height. There are different opinions about the first construction date of the castle. The structure called Beyaz Kale (Kal'etül Beyza / Beyda) due to the white limestone hill on which it was built was built in the 13th century. Birecik Castle was repaired three times during the Romans (30 BC - 395) Franks (1098 - 1150 AD) and the Mamluks (1277-1484). The walls surrounding the Birecik district center have been severely damaged, and have survived only with some bastion ruins and two partially standing gates. There are two gates, a bastion and an inscription on one wall of the walls, whose exact date is unknown. Based on these inscriptions, it is dated to 1483, the Mamluk Period. The Birecik Walls, also known as the Bağlar Gate and the Meydan Gate, have two surviving gates today. These are the Urfa Gate and the Mechan Gate.

There is no exit to Birecik castle. You can see it from afar. You should definitely eat eggplant kebab and liver here. I will never forget that beautiful ayran