Bodrum in 5 days

Built by the Knights of St John in the early 15th century with green marble from the Mausoleum; its towers bear the order's langues.

The site of the tomb of Mausolus, finished around 350 BC, 45 metres high and one of the Seven Wonders; it named every mausoleum.

Cut into the hillside in the 4th century BC, its tiers overlook the whole bay from the castle to the island of Kos.

A row of 18th-century stone windmills on the ridge between Bodrum and Gümbet, in use until the 1970s and partly restored.

The peninsula's family beach west of town: a gently shelving kilometre of sand and gravel, sheltered from the meltem, with windsurfing schools.

Bodrum has built wooden gulets for generations; each morning dozens leave the harbour for a day around Karaada, the Black Island across the bay.

A former sponge-diving village on the north coast whose marina, with more than 600 berths, takes some of the largest superyachts in the Mediterranean.

A fishing village on the site of ancient Myndos; wade knee-deep along the old causeway to Tavşan Island and look for sunken walls.