A warm spring-fed pool scattered with fluted marble columns that an earthquake toppled centuries ago, widely known as Cleopatra's Pool. Bathers float over the submerged Roman stone in water that rises from the same source that built the terraces; swimming costs a separate fee from site entry.
The swim costs extra on top of site entry and the submerged columns fill up by late morning, so buy the pool ticket first thing; bring a towel, the changing rooms are basic.
The strangest swim is near the centre, in what everyone calls the antique pool, a warm spring-fed bath scattered with fallen marble columns that an earthquake tipped in centuries ago. You get in and float over them, fluted Roman stone on the bottom, small bubbles rising past your legs from the vents below. It should feel like a theme park and somehow never does. The pool reopened in May 2026 after sixteen months of restoration work and a new visitor building at its edge, and it charges its own ticket on top of the site entry.
A shrine to Pluto built over a cave that breathes volcanic carbon dioxide, lethal to the sacrificial animals led in, which the priests of Hi
The site museum of Hierapolis, housed in the restored Roman bath complex, holding sarcophagi, statuary and small finds from the city and the
A Roman theatre cut into the hillside under Hadrian and rebuilt under Septimius Severus, its stage building still standing with much of its
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