Category
Ruins
9 places
- EphesusThe Library of Celsus, a 25,000-seat theater and marble streets — one of the best-preserved classical cities in the Mediterranean.UNESCOAncient Site
- SideTemples of Apollo and Athena standing on a promontory at the end of the town's main street.Ancient Site
- Temple of ArtemisOne of the Seven Wonders, now a single reassembled column in a field of foundations.UNESCOAncient Site
- PergeA colonnaded street with a water channel running down its center, between Hellenistic towers.Ancient Site
- TermessosA Pisidian city a thousand meters up, never taken by Alexander, now inside a national park.Ancient Site
- Temple of Augustus and RomeCarries the fullest surviving text of the Res Gestae, the emperor's own account of his reign.Ancient Site
- Agora of SmyrnaThe Roman marketplace rebuilt by Marcus Aurelius after the earthquake of 178, with vaulted basement galleries intact.Ancient Site
- ÇavuşinAn abandoned cliff village below the Church of St. John the Baptist, one of the oldest in the region.Ancient Site
- Roman Baths of AnkaraThe hypocaust floor of a 3rd-century bath complex, its brick pillars still standing in rows.Ruins