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Monuments & temples · Ankara

Ancyra (Augustus Temple)

Galatian–Roman2 km from Ankara

Roman Ankara. The walls of the Temple of Augustus carry the best surviving copy of the emperor’s own account of his reign, the Res Gestae, beside the Hacı Bayram Mosque; the Roman baths are a short walk away.

Plan the visitIts place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow
About 1 hour

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in
Ankara

2 km away as the crow flies, so allow more on the road.

On a trip
The Hittite heartland

Day 1 of 3.

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.

330 BC–AD 330Hellenistic and RomanAlexander’s successors and then Rome filled Anatolia with theatres, libraries, baths and colonnaded streets.

From here

Ankara

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