Kilikya is located 25 km from the hotel. It was built with an oval plan, on the hill in the west of the city. In classical times, there was a sacred temple built in the name of Goddess Athena Kanetis in the middle of the settlement known as Kokysionoros.
The settlement, which is understood to belong to the Hellenistic or early Roman period according to its basic findings, was reinforced by the Byzantines in its oval shape against Arab raids in the 7th century. The castle lived through the Armenian Cilician Kingdoms, Franks, Anatolian Seljuks, Karamanoğulları and Ottoman periods.
The castle was explored by travelers and researchers Captain Beaufort and V. Langlois in the 19th century. Evliya Çelebi, 23 bastions of the castle; He writes that there was a mosque (from the time of Sultan Bayezid II) and about 60 houses. Since most of the bastions were destroyed, only 10 of them can be seen today. A security corridor was created with a second wall built at the main entrance of the castle. Adequate archaeological excavations and scientific studies have not been carried out in the castle. The main structures that can be seen inside the castle are arched galleries, water cisterns and warehouses. Today, there is no trace left of the castle, which is a citadel, and the walls surrounding the city.
