Guide
The tower stands south of the village of Donduran in the district of Yenipazar. It is built of rubble stone and brick with reused marble in places, and consists of two adjoining square spaces, the one against the west front being the smaller.
A cubic building, it has a first floor, a second floor and a terrace. The wooden floors have burned away and are gone. On the east wall of the second floor is a hearth with a triangular gable. The terrace has arrow slits in its walls, and the entrance is on the same front, at the middle of the first-floor wall.
Entry was probably by steps inside a drawbridge; the remains of the pulley system of that bridge can be made out from the pulley at the centre of the wooden lintel. There are cracks large and small in the walls.
As the thinking of the day required, the tower was built above the village, commanding both the village and the Menderes plain. Its exact date is not known, but the inscriptions of the fountains in the village, dated 1763–64 and 1764–65, throw some light on it.
The tower matters as one of only four still standing in the province of Aydın.
