Yılan Castle

It is an important castle 40 km east of Adana, 13 km to Ceyhan and on the banks of Ceyhan River. It was built on a hill in Eastern Roman period in Çukurova Plain. Although it is not known whom the building was built by, it is obvious that it is a medieval work. It can control important commercial axes on the Aleppo trade route and the connection route to the Silk Road. It is one of the Crusader castles built in the 11th century in Middle Age. While the name of the castle, which was abandoned since 1357 during the Ramazanoğlu Principality Period, was Kovara, the famous Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi, who passed here in 1671, introduced the castle as Şahmeran Castle. Shahmaran, mentioned in legends, is a creature whose head is a snake and is the master of snakes.