Çandir

Çandır Castle, known in the Middle Ages as Paperon, crowns a high plateau on the southern slopes of the Taurus. Its walls overlook routes that descend toward Mersin and the Cilician plain. Together with the castles of Sinap and Gözne, it guarded roads through the mountains apart from the better-known Cilician Gates. The Armenian fortress made use of steep natural defences as well as masonry to control this difficult country.