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Termessos

UNESCO Tentative ListHellenistic–Roman24 km from Antalya

A Pisidian city high in the mountains that Alexander the Great chose not to besiege. Its theatre sits more than 1,000 metres up, looking out over the gorge, inside a national park of pine forest.

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
Antalya

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

On a trip
Antalya's ancient cities

Day 1 of 3.

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

Antalya

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