Perge
A planned Hellenistic and Roman city with a colonnaded main street, a water channel running down its middle and a stadium. Statues found here fill much of the Antalya Museum, the Weary Herakles among them.
Plan your visit
For a first visit at an easy pace.
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.
Where its treasures are now
Weary Herakles
AD 170–192. Lower half excavated at Perge in 1980; the looted upper half sat in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts until the two were reunited in 2011.
Antalya Museum, AntalyaWeary Herakles (upper half)
Returned 2011 and rejoined to the lower half in Antalya Museum
Returned from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, AntalyaSarcophagus of the Labours of Herakles
Returned 2017
Returned from Switzerland (Geneva), AntalyaFrom here
Antalya
16 km. Perge, Aspendos, Termessos, Side and the old town.
Aspendos
About 28 km as the crow flies. Its 2nd-century Roman theatre is among the best preserved anywhere, stage building included, and is still used for performances.
Antalya's ancient cities
3 days, 6 places, Antalya to Side.
Also nearby
- 12 kmSillyon
City, Hellenistic–Roman
- 16 kmAttaleia (Kaleiçi, Hadrian's Gate)
Historic town, Roman–Ottoman
- 28 kmAspendos
City & theatre, Hellenistic–Roman
- 35 kmTermessos
City, Hellenistic–Roman
- 38 kmSelge
City, Hellenistic–Roman
- museumAlanya Museum
Bronze Herakles
- museumAntalya Museum
Perge statues, Weary Herakles
- museumElmalı Museum
Elmalı treasure
- museumKaş Museum
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