Ancient sacred sites in Antalya, Turkey

Antiphellos

Antalya, Turkey

Antiphellos was a Lycian harbor city whose ancient necropolis of rock-cut tombs and sarcophagi has never been separated from daily life....

Aperlai

Antalya, Turkey

Aperlai was a Lycian harbor city that produced Tyrian purple — the most valuable dye of antiquity, reserved for emperors and gods — and whose fortification walls now...

Ariassus

Antalya, Turkey

Ariassus is a ruined Pisidian and Roman city on a steep hillside above the Döşemealtı district of Antalya, founded in the Hellenistic period and flourishing through the...

Arykanda

Antalya, Turkey

Arykanda rises in five terraces against a near-vertical mountain cliff at roughly 1,000 meters in the Taurus range....

Aspendos

Antalya, Turkey

Aspendos is the site of the most intact Roman theatre on earth — its full stage building standing two stories high as it was constructed in the 2nd–3rd century CE, still...

Cyaneae

Antalya, Turkey

Cyaneae stands on a hill above the village of Yavu in western Lycia, its streets lined with more sarcophagi than any other known Lycian city....

Limyra

Antalya, Turkey

Limyra was the capital of Lycia under King Pericles in the fourth century BCE — a city of more than 400 rock-cut tombs, a royal hero shrine, and a Temple of Zeus known...

Necropolis of Xanthos

Antalya, Turkey

Xanthos was the political and spiritual capital of ancient Lycia, and its necropolis is the highest expression of a civilization that thought differently about death....

Olympos

Antalya, Turkey

Olympos is a Lycian city where a ruined valley opens onto a beach and a mountainside above burns with perpetual natural flame....

Perge

Antalya, Turkey

Perge is one of the most complete Roman-period cities in Turkey — a colonnaded metropolis of theatres, baths, and triumphal gates set in the Pamphylian plain east of...

Phaselis

Antalya, Turkey

Phaselis was founded by Greek colonists from Lindos in the late 7th century BC, built around three natural harbors at the edge of the Lycian coast, and carried a legendary...

Rhodiapolis

Antalya, Turkey

Rhodiapolis stands on a hill above the Kumluca plain, largely unvisited, carrying one of the most extraordinary monuments in the ancient world: the mausoleum of Opramoas,...

Selge

Antalya, Turkey

Selge occupied a natural fortress at 1,250 metres in the Taurus, overlooking the gorges of what is now Köprülü Canyon National Park....

Side

Antalya, Turkey

Side was one of the great port cities of ancient Pamphylia — a dense peninsula-city of temples, theatres, and harbor gates, unique in having its own indigenous language...

Sura

Antalya, Turkey

On a marshy inlet near ancient Myra, the oracle of Sura operated for centuries without a philosopher or priestess in sight — only fish....

Temple of Apollo and Athena at Side

Part of Side

Antalya, Turkey

The temples of Apollo and Athena at Side occupy the westernmost tip of a Mediterranean peninsula — a harbor sacred area where two Olympian deities once watched over every...

Termessos

Antalya, Turkey

Termessos stands on a near-inaccessible summit of Güllük Dağı at almost 1,000 metres, ringed by cliffs that turned back Alexander the Great in 333 BCE....

Theimussa

Antalya, Turkey

At Üçağız, the ancient village of Theimussa, the line between archaeology and daily life has never fully closed....