Pamukkale
Pamukkale, meaning ‘’cotton castle’’ in Turkish is a natural site in Denizli Province in Southwestern Turkey. The area is famous froma carbonate mineral left by the flowing of thermal spring water.
Pamukkale, meaning ‘’cotton castle’’ in Turkish is a natural site in Denizli Province in Southwestern Turkey. The area is famous froma carbonate mineral left by the flowing of thermal spring water.
The ancient Greek city of Hierapolis was built on top of the travertine formation which is in total about 2700 meters long, 600 m wide and 160 m high
Pamukkale’s terraces are made of travertine a sedimentary rock deposited by mineral water from the hot springs. The water that emerges from the spring is transported 320 meters to the head of the travertine terreaces and deposits calcium carbonite on a section 60 – 70 meters. When the water, supersaturated with calcium carbonate, reaches the surface, carbon dioxide de – gasses from it, calcium carbonate deposited. Calcium carbonate is deposited by the water as a soft gel which eventually crystallizes into travertine.
Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias was a small ancient Greek Hellenistic city in the historic Caira cultural region of western Anatolia Turkey.
Aphrodisias was named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love who had here her unique cult image the Aphrodite of Aphrodisias.
Aphrodisias was the metropolis of the region and Roman province of Caria. White and blue grey Carian marble was extensively quarried from adjacent slopes in Hellenistic and Roman periods for building facades and sculptures.
The city had notable schools for sculpture as well as philosophy, remaining a centre of paganism until the end of the 5th century.
Sagalassos
Sagalassos also known as Selgessos is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey about 100 KM of Antalya.
In Roman Imperial times, the town was known as the ‘’first city of Pesidia’’ a region in the western Taurus Mountains, currently known as the Turkish Lakes Region. During the hellenistic period it was already one of the major Pisidian towns.
Sagalassos was one of the wealthiest cities in Pisidia when Alexander the Great conquered it in 333 BCE on his way to Persia.
The Roman Empire absorbed Pisidia after the Attalids and it became part of the province of Asia. Under the Roman Empire, Sagalassos became the importantn urban center of Pisidia.
