Olympos Ancient City
On the southern coast of Antalya, the second important port city after Phaselis is Olympos. The city takes its name from Tahtalı Mountain, which is one of the western extensions of the Taurus Mountains, 16 kilometers to the north, with a height of 2 thousand 375 meters. It is within the borders of Beydağları-Olympos National Park. Most of the surviving remains of the city, which is about 57 km away from our hotel, are covered with trees and bushes in the forest and belong to the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.
The remnants of Olympos that have survived to the present day are generally located at the mouth and on both sides of a river that flows rapidly to the sea, from east to west. In the ancient period, the river bed that divided the city into two was taken into a canal and both sides were used as piers and connected to each other by a bridge. Today, one foot of the bridge remains in place.
On the southern coast of Antalya, the second important port city after Phaselis is Olympos. The city takes its name from Tahtalı Mountain, which is one of the western extensions of the Taurus Mountains, 16 kilometers to the north, with a height of 2 thousand 375 meters. It is within the borders of Beydağları-Olympos National Park. Most of the surviving remains of the city, which is about 57 km away from our hotel, are covered with trees and bushes in the forest and belong to the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods.
The remnants of Olympos that have survived to the present day are generally located at the mouth and on both sides of a river that flows rapidly to the sea, from east to west. In the ancient period, the river bed that divided the city into two was taken into a canal and both sides were used as piers and connected to each other by a bridge. Today, one foot of the bridge remains in place.