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mtncorg Says: Baths, another agora and a colonnaded street all feature in the excavations of the lower city. This area featured more nymphaea – fountains – and with more time than I had could uncover many more secrets leading to life in ancient Sagalassos. The website for Sagalassos...
mtncorg Says: Dating back to 160-180 AD, this fountain has been magnificently restored and water flow has been reintroduced once again. There is a water basin at the base of the 27 meter wide monument which reaches about 7.8 meters high. It has undergone a nearly complete anastylosis -...
mtncorg Says: This was the political center of the city and dates back to the 3rd C BC though most of the look today dates from the much later time of Augustus. The agora was the site for the bouleterion – city council – as well as monumental arches devoted to emperors and columns devoted...
mtncorg Says: In many ancient towns you would pass through a necropolis before you entered a town. Local topography did not allow that here at Sagalassos. The main necropolis can be found on the south, west and east edges of the city center. Carved into the cliffs behind the Northwest...
mtncorg Says: Dating back to about 15 BC, this monument was restored and re-erected between 2001 and 2009. A heroon is a monument raised to memorialize a local hero but due to a lack of inscriptions it is not known to whom the monument was built to – though the head of a large statue of...
mtncorg Says: Built between 180 and 210 AD, the theater is thought to have been able to fit some 9,000 people within. A large column on the hill above the theater to the south west used to honor the citizen responsible for the theater construction. The theater is built according to Greek...
mtncorg Says: From the entrance a winding road takes you up to the right through an old housing section to a large fountain built in the 1st C BC. The fountain is a u-shaped half rectangle open to the south with the water basin covered by a colonnaded roof. Clay pipes were used to further...
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first of all,you have to go to aglasun (1150m) :
60km from isparta thru N685
120km from antalya thru N650 and N685
when in aglasun:
from there (arrows) 7km of a narrow asphalted road climbs to the site.
site is open daily,from 8am to sunset,april to october.
no entrance fees (in october 2004)
Updated Nov 19, 2004
Website: www.sagalassos.be
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The act of restoring or rebuilding a ruined building or monument using original elements to the greatest degree is called anastylosis. The Library of Celsus at Ephesus, the Treasury at Petra, the buildings of My Son in Viet Nam, The Erechtheion and parts of the Parthenon itself are all but some of the better known examples. Much of the magnificence of the site here at Sagalassos is due to the reconstructions that have been painstakingly done giving the visitor a better feel for what the town must have looked like back in the early centuries of the Common Era.
Written May 28, 2012
Website: http://www.sagalassos.be/
lower agora:religious + administrative buildings
cbeaujean Says: an other nymphea (end 1st cent.AC),awfully restorated.when excavations and restoration works will come to an end,sagalassos will become one of the most imposing sites thru anatolia.
the upper nymphea (1st cent.BC)
cbeaujean Says: on your right,when climbing to the theater.recently restorated.a small marble basin surrounded with columns catch the springwater (restarted by archeologists)
the highest theater all over the Antiquity:1574m!
cbeaujean Says: 9000 persons.the building of the theater (180-200 AC) needed important stoneworks for compensating ground declivity .stage is not excavated yet.stepped row of seats stay nearly undamaged,excepted the upper ones used for building city walls later.from the top,you'll enjoy an...
sagalassos,eyrie at an altitude of 1500m
because of its altitude,one of the most well preserved site thru turkey.
SAGALASSOS – ANCIENT RUINS HIGH IN THE TAURUS MTNS
High in the mountains just 7 km up from the town of Ağlasun – 30 km from Burdur or Isparta – are the magnificent ruins of Sagalassos. The site is at around 1500 meters in elevation. Dating back...
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