Amida (Diyarbakır walls)

UNESCO World HeritageRoman–Ottomanin Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır’s black basalt city walls, almost six kilometres around, with the Hevsel Gardens running down to the Tigris. World Heritage since 2015.

Plan the visit Its place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow

About half a day

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in

Diyarbakır

The place is in town.

On a trip

Where it began

Day 4 of 5.

Hours and tickets

Check before you go

Opening hours and prices change: see muze.gov.tr (opens in a new tab).

Times are our estimates. Distances are straight lines.

Its place in history

Read the chapter before you go.

AD 330–1453Byzantine and ArmenianConstantine made Byzantium his capital, Constantinople, and Justinian built Hagia Sophia there.

From here

Next on the trip · Day 5

Dara

About 103 km as the crow flies. A Byzantine frontier fortress city founded around AD 505 to face Persia, with huge underground cisterns and a necropolis of rock-cut tombs outside the walls.

The whole trip

Where it began

5 days, 9 places, Gaziantep to Mardin.

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Also nearby

museum
Diyarbakır Archaeology Museum
Çayönü finds

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