Pamukkale district travel guide

Top 8 sights in Pamukkale district

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   Hierapolis

   A Greek city founded about 190 BC on the travertine terraces, where people came for the hot springs and often to die in them: its necropolis is the largest in Anatolia. The theatre is largely intact, and the martyrium of the apostle Philip stands above the town.

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   Laodicea on the Lycus

   One of the seven churches of Revelation, and the one rebuked for being lukewarm — a joke the locals would have caught, since its water arrived by aqueduct tepid, having started hot at Hierapolis and cold at Colossae. Two theatres and a stadium have been dug out since 2003.

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   Colossae

   The town of Paul's letter to the Colossians, on the road from Ephesus to the east. The mound has never been excavated and sits in a field near Honaz, which makes it the least visited of the three cities of this valley and the most purely imagined.

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   Ploutonion at Hierapolis

   A shrine to Pluto at Hierapolis, built over a fault that vents carbon dioxide. The gas pools at ground level, so animals led into the enclosure died while the priests, whose heads were above it, walked out — a miracle with a mechanism. The gas still kills birds at the opening.

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   Denizli Atatürk and Ethnography Museum

   A museum in a two-storey nineteenth-century house in the Saraylar district of Denizli in Turkey. It opened in 1984 and combines a memorial to Atatürk with a display of ethnographic material.

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   Heraclea by Salbace

   The remains of an ancient Carian city in Turkey. It was Christianised early, and an episcopal see is attested there from the first centuries of the church.

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   Pamukkale Archeology Museum

   A museum inside the ancient city of Hierapolis at Pamukkale in Denizli province, Turkey. It has occupied a converted Roman bath building since 1 February 1984, and displays finds from Hierapolis and from Laodicea, Colossae and the other cities of the Lycus valley.

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   Theatre of Hierapolis

   A Roman theatre cut into the hillside above the white terraces, built in the 2nd century and remodelled under Septimius Severus, with seating for some 12,000. Its stage building survives to full height, the carved friezes of Apollo and Artemis still in place.

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