This is a rock settlement rather than a built castle, and it can be picked out from a distance: a mass of rock north-east of the village of Bayramaliler in the İhsaniye district, gentle on its north-west slopes and steep on the others.
In the rocks to the south there are niches and offering hollows in numbers, which indicate that the area was used for worship in the first millennium BC. Vaulted rooms, cisterns and food stores were then cut into the slopes, and a settlement grew up; the flat ground on top was walled and turned into a castle, held for defence because of the view it commanded. In the eastern Roman period the castle became the centre of a settlement called Leonto Kefal. The road from Afyon runs through Gazligol and İhsaniye to Döger, 45 kilometres.
Getting there
- Access
- Forty-five kilometres from Afyon by way of Gazlıgöl and İhsaniye to Döğer.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Afyonkarahisar as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 22.2 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (56 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
