Archive for Kasım 25th, 2008
MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN (NIMFEUM)
As entering ‘Side’ it is the monumental structure on the left. It is 50 meters long and has a pool of water in front of it. Its width is ten meters. Water used to flow from three large depots, each had three marble-grooves. The front marble facade of the fountain was carved with designs illustrating [...]
MANAVGAT WATERFALL
On the left of a nice highway, in the length of 80 kilometers leading to Antalya, an asphalt side-road of 4 kilometers will take you there. Though it doesn’t flow down from a high precipice the abundance of its water splashing on the rocks dazzles the eyes of the guests, and makes them thrill [...]
SIDE (Manavgat)
The name is derived from the word meaning “pomegranate” in that language used to symbolize abundance in the past. Historian Strabon reports that the City of Side was first constructed by the colonists migrated from “Kyme” in the 7th Century B.C. Later on, it was mastered by the Lydians in the 6th Century B.C. and [...]
SELGE – ZERK
It is a mountain-city, and for this reason it had usually been protected against the attacks, so that its theatre, its gymnasium, agora, stadium and its temples of Zeus and of Artemis still stand in their places.