Leander’s Tower is a unique site along the Bosphorus, jutting from the rocky terrain a little off the coast of Üsküdar. There are many myths as to its origins and the best known one is an allegory on the indomitable ways of fate. The story has it that the Byzantine king commissions the construction of the tower to defeat the evil omen that his daughter will be killed by a snake. He hides his daughter in this tower located off the shore which no creeping animal can approach. Yet one day a boat carrying foodstuffs to the small island brings doom to the maiden in the form of the snake curled amid the provisions.
it was taken in january 11,2007 (Location: Istanbul)

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