Collecting and usage of water in historical Alanya castle

This study, titled Collecting and Usage of Water in Historical Alanya Castle is related with the methods applied in Alanya Castle about the storage, transmission, protection, use and discharge of water which forms the basis of life. Alanya Castle has been an uninterrupted settlement area throughout history. In order to carry the traces of cultural continuity, traces of water harvesting methods and water uses have been transferred from past to present. Water structures constructed in different areas such as harvesting and storing rainwater from rooftops and open areas, water use, landslide and soil loss in extreme rains, protection from flood, waste water removal, port structures and water structures that are constructed to benefit from sea by means of transportation and trade are important elements in terms of Hydraulic History. Water structures are the common cultural heritage of humanity which should be transferred to the next generations in terms of explaining their social life, engineering and architecture information, apart from the technological solutions of the period they were built. The fact that while the monumental buildings and civil architectural examples are so accessible; thus searchable, in Alanya Castle, those components also cause some invisibility to the researcher. Key Words: water harvesting, waste water, cistern, tannery