Rumeli fortress Hisari, or Romerska fortress, located on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges across the Bosphorus at its narrowest part, North of the Bebek district. She was built in 1452 on the contrary another fortress Anadolu Hisari, located on the Asian shore of the Strait and was strategically important object of the Ottoman Empire on the Bosphorus, guarding the gates of the Golden horn Bay.

The castle was built at that time in a record time of 4 months and 16 days. Total area of the facility was more than 30 thousand sq. m. After the construction of Rumeli to swim the Bosphorus became impossible, the narrow space between the fortress and the fortress itself was nicknamed the "slit throat".

In Roumeli, Chisari was organized garrison of Janissaries, daily shooting Strait with its huge guns, and all foreign vessels passing through Bosphorus was forbidden. Once a Venetian ship tried to break into the city and ignored the signal to stop. He was immediately sunk, and all miraculously surviving sailors landed on a spike. Since that time guns installed in the fortress, used as a precautionary volleys and salute.

After the fall of Constantinople, the fortress served as a customs checkpoint. The construction of the citadel was badly damaged in the first earthquake in 1509, and then during a fire in 1746 Soon Roumeli Hisari completely lost its strategic importance and its turned into a prison.

The fortress consists of 3 large (round) and 13 small towers, which were connected by a thick, ten-meter walls.
Each of the main towers, leading to the fortress, had three gates. The South tower had the same secret gate to grocery stores and Arsenal. Inside the citadel were housed in wooden barracks in which the soldiers was and the small size of the mosque, which houses a large water reservoir.

Update fortress was timed to coincide with the quincentenary of the conquest of Constantinople in 1953, but it was restored only in 1958. In the fortress was in 1960 opened a Summer Theatre and the Museum of Artillery. Now is arranged inside the Park and amphitheatre with rows of stone seats for concerts. On its walls there are no fences, the steps are steep and uneven. To climb over him to be very careful. Height I can reach twenty meters, which also serves as a good reason back once again not to climb, and just sit quietly on the benches and enjoy the views from the fortress.