Marmaris

Can you imagine a town’s name being born of a sultan’s anger? That is exactly the most famous story told about Marmaris… Legend has it that in 1522, Suleiman the Magnificent, returning from the Rhodes campaign, was displeased with the castle on this bay and angrily commanded “Mimar as!”: “Hang the architect!” Passed from mouth to mouth over time, this order turned into the name of the bay. We don’t know whether the story is true; but if it is, we can guess that the architect was not too pleased with the fame that made his name immortal…