Alanya Castle sits on a rocky peninsula 820 feet (250 m) high. Alaeddin Keykubad I of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm conquered the city in 1220, and the infobox gives completion as 1226, with most construction in the 13th century. The article names no architect or materials. It lists the style as Seljuk in the infobox only, and says the castle was built as part of a campaign that included the Kızıl Kule. It stands on the remnants of earlier Byzantine and Roman fortifications. Its former name was Alaiye Castle.
The complex covers about 25 acres (10 hectares), with a surrounding wall 4.0 miles (6.5 km) long and 140 towers. 400 cisterns served the castle. Under Ottoman rule it became less purely defensive, and villas were built inside the walls in the 19th century.
Today it is an open-air museum, and it joined Turkey's tentative list for UNESCO in 2009.
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