Sanctuary
Monuments & temples · Muğla

Letoon

UNESCO World HeritageLycian–Roman34 km from Kaş

The sanctuary of Leto and her children Apollo and Artemis, the religious centre of the Lycian League. A stele found here in 1973 carries one decree in Lycian, Greek and Aramaic, and helped scholars read Lycian; it is now in the Fethiye Museum.

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
Kaş

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

On a trip
The Lycian coast

Day 2 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.

1000–330 BCGreeks and PersiansGreek cities grew along the Aegean coast, and in Ionia the first philosophers asked what the world was made of.

From here

Kaş

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