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Lycian sacred sites in Turkey
Explore 5 Lycian sacred places in Turkey, with mapped locations and detailed site guides.
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Letoon
Muğla, Turkey
Letoon was the sacred center of the Lycian League — not a city but a federal sanctuary where an entire civilization declared its political decisions before the gods....
Patara
Antalya, Turkey
Patara was the most sacred city of ancient Lycia — the winter seat of Apollo, home to an oracle rivalling Delphi, birthplace of Saint Nicholas, and capital of one of...
Pinara
Muğla, Turkey
Pinara is one of the least-visited major Lycian cities, set on the flanks of Mount Babadağ with hundreds of rock-cut tombs honeycombed into sheer cliffs above the ruins....
Tlos
Muğla, Turkey
Tlos has been continuously occupied since the Bronze Age and carries the fullest record of Lycian history of any city on the coast — from Hittite texts and the myth of...
Xanthos
Antalya, Turkey
Xanthos was the greatest city of Lycia, an ancient Anatolian civilization whose most distinctive expression was the pillar tomb: the dead raised on stone columns above the...
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What is included in this Lycian guide to Turkey?
This guide includes 5 sacred places within the Lycian tradition in Turkey.
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