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Ancient cities · Aydın

Aphrodisias

UNESCO World HeritageHellenistic–Byzantine42 km from Pamukkale

The city of Aphrodite, home of a celebrated school of marble sculptors working from quarries close by. Its stadium is one of the best preserved of the ancient world, and the site museum holds the Sebasteion reliefs. World Heritage since 2017.

Plan the visitIts place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow
About 3 hours

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in
Pamukkale

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

On a trip
Ephesus to the travertines

Day 3 of 4.

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.

Where its treasures are now

In Türkiye

Sebasteion reliefs

1st century AD. Some 70 panels from a temple to the emperors, including Claudius subduing Britannia and Nero conquering Armenia.

Aphrodisias Museum, Aydın (Geyre)
Abroad

'Old Fisherman' marble torso

Türkiye is seeking repatriation; unresolved as of March 2026

Berlin State Museums (Antikensammlung), Berlin

From here

Pamukkale

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