Sunken city & castle
Ancient cities · Antalya

Kekova / Simena (Kaleköy)

UNESCO Tentative ListLycian–Byzantine21 km from Kaş

A sheltered bay where earthquakes dropped part of a Lycian town into the shallows. Boats glide over the foundations, and on shore the village of Kaleköy (Simena) climbs to a castle among Lycian sarcophagi.

Plan the visitIts place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow
About half a day by boat

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in
Kaş

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

On a trip
The Lycian coast

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.

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

From here

Kaş

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