Lycia

  • Pinara, Turkey.

    BySteven Sklifas

    Evocative Ancient Lycian city The remote ancient Lycian city of Pinara is on a pine forested mountain foothill of the ancient Mount Cragus (today Mount Babadag),two kilometres above the village of Minare, in the Fethiye district of Mugla Province, south-western Turkey. The lost ruins of Pinara were discovered by Sir Charles Fellows, a British archaeologist…

  • Arykanda Turkey

    BySteven Sklifas

    Built on a series of terraces on a rocky steep hillside overlooking stunning mountainous and valley landscape, Arykanda’s location resonates like mystical Delphi in Greece and is perhaps the most beautiful of ancient cities in the whole of Lycia, an ancient geopolitical region in Anatolia. It is in the province of Antalya on the southern (Turquoise)…