Historic sites

Aphrodisias

Turkey Aydın Karacasu

Aphrodisias
Photo: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A Roman city famous for its school of marble sculpture, with a superbly preserved stadium for 30,000 spectators, a monumental gateway (the Tetrapylon), and a museum of fine statues, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.


It's much quieter than Ephesus. It's about 2 hours from Pamukkale.

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