The ancient city of Side was built on a 350-400 meters wide peninsula located 80 km east of Antalya and 7 km southwest of Manavgat. Side, which was the most important port city of Pamphylia in the Ancient Period, is known to have been a settlement in the 7th century BC. The city, which hosted many civilizations throughout history and lived through the Greeks, Lydians, Persians, Romans, Seljuks and Ottomans, played a strategic role as a trade and harbor city for centuries.
Becoming a bishopric center in the 5th century, Side Ancient City experienced its heyday in the 5th and 6th centuries. However, it lost its power over time with the Arab raids afterwards. Invasions, looting during the crusades and natural disasters caused the city to be abandoned. In the 12th century, the city, which was completely evacuated, came under the sovereignty of the Seljuks in the 13th century and the Hamitoğulları Principality and Tekelioğluları in the 14th century. Since the Seljuks and Ottomans did not settle in Side, there are no artifacts from these periods.
The ancient city of Side, as seen in other Pamphylian cities, extends along a monumental street starting from the main gate of the city. Starting from the ‘Great Gate’ in the northeast, the main street runs along the peninsula in a mostly straight line and ends with a large square near the temples. The city’s second major street also runs from the ‘Great Gate’ to the south of the city.
The surviving evidence includes the city gate, colonnaded streets, city walls, trade agora, state agora, monumental fountain, waterway, houses, theater, Vespasian Fountain and monumental gate, triumphal arch, Temple of Dionysus, The bishop’s palace and basilica, the southern basilica, the Temple of Apollo, the Temple of Athena, the great bath, the harbor bath, the baptistery, the Philippus Attius City Wall and the agora bath used as the Side Museum.
The theater in the center of the city, built following the tradition of Roman Architecture, is leaning against a slope up to the road in the middle of the steps of the seating rows. The upper part of the seating rows was placed on a sloping plane shaped on vaults. Side Ancient Theater is the only building example of Anatolia with this feature. Your journey into history among the thousands of years of beauty of Side Ancient City, which impresses its visitors with its splendor, will be one of the most unforgettable experiences of your Antalya trip.
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Which Treatment Options Do We Offer at the Clinic?
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