City & rock tombs
Rock & underground · Antalya

Myra

UNESCO Tentative ListLycian–Roman32 km from Kaş

Lycian rock tombs carved to look like timber houses, beams and doors included, above a large Roman theatre. In Demre below is the church associated with Saint Nicholas, who was bishop of Myra.

Plan the visitIts place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow
About 1–2 hours

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in
Kaş

32 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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