The castle lies within Kaleköy, six kilometres from the Mesudiye district of Ordu, and is known to have been built in the 14th century. What survives is a set of remains rather than a standing fortress: the great curtain walls, the ruins of three domed tombs, rock-cut graves and old gravestones.
Getting there
- Access
- Ordu to Mesudiye is 114 kilometres and the castle six more from the centre of Mesudiye, on a metalled road.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ordu as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.1 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in October (131 mm) and lightest in May (57 mm). Long-term means for 1959-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
