Archive for the From Antalya Category
THE CHURCH (BASILICA)
When we walk forward from the south gate of the City (beginning on the left of the theatre) we arrive at a plain. Here is the Agora of the City. A little ahead a colossal building faces you. It is one of the best-preserved constructions, being in the height of 16 meters. It has been [...]
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 [...]
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 with [...]
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.
PERGE (Murtuna)
According to the writings of the archaic Greek tablets, the Akkadians had settled down in this area in 2,000 B.C. The Greeks that came to the western coast of Anatolia in the 7th Century B.C. were the only masters at that age. Later on, it was ruled by Lydia, then by the Persians, Alexander the [...]
OLIMPOS [ Olympos ]
On walking 45 kilometers from Antalya towards the west, you get to Olimpos, which is 50 meters high above sea-level, and which was one of the important cities of the Lykia Kingdom.
You can go by bus from Antalya. It’s about 1 hour. One can go to “Yanartas” from “Cirali” which is 7 kilometers far from [...]
MYRA (Demre)
This district is specially important as being the last meeting-place of St. Paul with the other apostles on the way to Rome. At the same time the grave, including the bones of St. Nicholas who has been personified as “Santa Claus” in the Christian World is in the Church which stands there.
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Late period of City ( city Gates & foreground )
These gates are the main portals into the city. They were built with colossal huge stones. A retaining wall was added to it in the middle, to prevent its collapse in ruins.
As seen above, from the outside, it consisted of two cylindrical towers, and is part of a majestic sight of Perge. The inner eye [...]
Carain (karain ) Cave
It presumption that a prehistoric man had begun to live in this cave about 50,000 years ago, and it was a very old unit residential district. Excavations have revealed some stone axes, teeth of Neanderthals and the teeth of the cave-bear and lion from the Stone Age (Paleolithic). And it was further uncovered some relics [...]
HOW CAN YOU GET TO ANTALYA?
You can go by air, by sea or overland to this Turkish Riviera. A address from Istanbul or Izmir will yield you there in 3 or 4 days, affecting at Kusadasi (Birds Island), Bodrum (Halicarnassus), Marmaris (Physcus), Fethiye (Telmessus), and Kas. Everyday you can acquisition a even from Istanbul to Antalya and carnality versa.
Also you [...]