Myra in Lycia

5 December 2016 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  8 minutes

Tomb of Saint Nicholas © Sjoehest/cc-by-sa-3.0

Tomb of Saint Nicholas © Sjoehest/cc-by-sa-3.0

Myra was an ancient Greek town in Lycia where the small town of Kale (Demre) is situated today, in present-day Antalya Province of Turkey. It was located on the river Myros (Demre Çay), in the fertile alluvial plain between Alaca Dağ, the Massikytos range and the Aegean Sea. The ruins of the Lycian and Roman town are mostly covered by alluvial silts. The Acropolis on the Demre-plateau, the Roman theatre and the Roman baths (eski hamam) have been partly excavated. The semi-circular theater was destroyed in an earthquake in 141, but rebuilt afterwards.   read more…

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