A Roman theatre cut into the hillside under Hadrian and rebuilt under Septimius Severus, its stage building still standing with much of its carved marble relief. One of the best preserved ancient theatres in Turkey, looking straight down the plateau of Hierapolis to the valley.
Leave it for the top of the site and climb to the upper rows for the sweep back over the valley; the marble steps are uneven and there is no shade, so go early or late rather than at midday.
Because there is a city on top. Climb to the summit and the terraces give way to Hierapolis, the spa city the kings of Pergamon founded around these springs in the second century BC and Rome then ran for five hundred years, and it is enormous. Colonnaded streets, a bath complex the size of a basilica, and a theatre cut into the hillside with its stage still standing. People came to take the waters, and a great many who did not get better stayed on for good, ranked up the slope in one of the largest ancient cemeteries in Turkey.
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
A warm spring-fed pool scattered with fluted marble columns that an earthquake toppled centuries ago, widely known as Cleopatra's Pool. Bath
The site museum of Hierapolis, housed in the restored Roman bath complex, holding sarcophagi, statuary and small finds from the city and the
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