The stone tower and state courtyard

Together with the courtyard the impressive tower formed the public part of the complex. The building is rectangular and shows inclined walls (Fig. 3). It has three storeys, the highest of which is unroofed and surrounded by a crenellation wall. A secondary building seemed to have been attached to the south, where still traces of attachments are visible. Another not preserved extension of the tower was a roofed portico in front of the entrance. This is evident by a row of beam holes on the height of the first floor.

Entering the tower from the courtyard leads you into a high storeroom used also as a living quarter with niches and wooden lamp holders. Its door could be secured with a thick beam, resting inside the walls. A proper stone built staircase leads into the second floor, where the state 'Majlis' is located. Six windows and several small rectangular holes ventilate this highly representative room. Two doors led to the attached building in the south and to the roof of the portico in the east. The 'Majlis' walls were fitted out with niches and lamp holders as well. It may have been here, where the peace treaty of 1820 was signed. The roof of the tower could be reached from a ladder, made from short mangrove poles inserted into the walls diagonally across the corner. A crenellated wall secured the roof, which was used as a fighting platform with several vertical firing slots and a hooded firing point.