Southern Turkey is on the one hand shaped by the sea, its landscapes and culture, and on the other by the outstanding services and activities it has to offer. With more than 300 days of sunshine a year, it is undoubtedly an attractive holiday destination for guests from Europe the whole year round. And of course, Mount Tahtali is a major landmark of this booming region that is impossible to overlook!

Mount Tahtali lies at the heart of the Antalya tourist region with several hundred-thousand hotel beds conveniently found in close proximity, approximately a third of which are in 5-star hotel establishments. The possibilities and offers open to guests are boundless: swimming, diving, golf, sailing, sunbathing, culture or the extremely popular excursions. Here, Mount Tahtali offers a brand new experience, with a stupendous view over the whole of southern Turkey and, naturally, the sea.

Diversity is an important factor for any successful tourist destination. And the contrasting experience the Mount Tahtali Aerial Cableway provides is a masterpiece! Having enjoyed sunbathing on sandy beaches in the morning, guests are then able to while away the afternoons amid the pleasantly cool temperatures of a snowy mountain summit. The aerial cableway brings the mountains and sea closer together – the Tahtali cable car provides Europe with a unique combination that is hard to match.

Unique experiences await: approach through a nature conservation area, modern base station, ride in a cabin with a capacity of 80, summit station with panorama terrace, 360° view, restaurant, short walks …

Technical Details:

• Summit station 2,363m above sea level
• Base station 726m above sea level
• Height difference 1,637m
• Journey time 9 minutes 21 seconds  
• 80 passengers per cabin
• 470 passengers per hour
• Maximum speed 10 m/s
• Track ropes 4 x 51 mm
• Haul rope 38 mm
• Number of supports 4
• Running power 537 kW

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The city-limits became the missionary centre during aboriginal periods of Christianity and new ramparts were added during the Pax Romana era. It was apparent to the invasions and plunders of thePerge Arabic raiders during the 7th century. Upon the Aksu river getting abounding with alluvia and acceptable clashing for amphibian transportation, appropriately bare of abyssal trade, the humans emigrated to added cities and alone Perge. The aboriginal of the city-limits charcoal that one encounters is the theatre anticipation to accept been congenital during the 2nd aeon A.D. 43 caveas of the theatre with a basement accommodation of 15,000 assemblage are disconnected into two through a diazoma in the middle. By architecture a arcade at the end of the apical cavea it was advised to optimize the acoustics. The actuality of careful walls amid the tiers of seats and the orchestra shows that the theatre was acclimated as an amphitheatre during the backward Roman era. The date architecture has two storeys, with its face bizarre with marble reliefs. Legends from the fabulous activity of Bacuss, God of ball and wine, are depicted in relief.

The a lot of arresting ones are the reliefs and embossings of Kestros, God of river, with Fortuna, Goddess of fate, continuing and the friezes depicting a boy bathed by three Pergean women in the river. The U-shaped Stadion amid adverse the theatre has a accommodation of 25 thousand humans and is a Roman era plan of art. The building, with ambit of 34 x 234 metres, was congenital aloft 50 annular arches and consists of 17 caveas. The façades of the arches adverse outwards were acclimated as sales food in age-old times and according to the inscriptions discovered, it is accepted that the best affairs appurtenances were the board statues of Artemis. To the North of the Stadion, one comes to a City Aboideau dating to the backward Roman era abutting two watch building 10 metres top and covered with slabs of marble. The walls abaft the aboideau access are aswell marble-faced, with 4 round-arched congenital niches anticipation to accept independent statues of deities. Through this aboideau one accomplish into Septimus Severus Square, 70 metres long. To the appropriate of the square, the charcoal of the agreement box are visible. On the larboard duke ancillary are the charcoal of a awe-inspiring fountain. The apparent of the fountain, which is 15 metres high, is formed with the reliefs of Artemis, Aphrodite and Nymph muses and is faced with slabs of marble. A little added ahead, one comes to Palaestra which is a anteroom acceptance to the Roman Bathhouse complex, paved with coloured mosaics on the floor, area gymnastics and angry sports were performed.

Opposite to this are a little bathrobe allowance with niches on its centralized walls and next to it, a Frigidarium/cold allowance with a algid baptize basin 1 accent deep. Further forth one passes into the Tepidarium/warming room, which was aswell acclimated as a sitting and comatose area, and Caldarium/hot allowance area the attic is marble-faced. This area was acrimonious from beneath via a Hypocaust/hot air system, a Roman invention. In the bend of the allowance the charcoal of the brick columns through which hot air anesthetized are visible. From this area one passes through a attenuated aperture to Sudatorium/steam and diaphoresis allowance area there are 5 aboveboard marble bathtubs, with marble-facing on all surfaces Going from Septimus Severus Aboveboard appear the acropolis, one can admission the Hellenistic Gate, the aboriginal aboideau of the city, adequate by two ample annular towers, with a little agreement cloister in the appearance of a ambit at the rear. It is anticipation that there were little board accommodation confined as dormitories for the watch keepers on the towers. It is accepted that the statues of assorted deities, primarily getting the Goddess Artemis and God Apollonius, and Roman emperors acclimated to absorb the niches in the centralized surfaces of the walls adverse the agreement aboveboard abaft the towers.

In foreground of the marble celebrating accomplished with three vaults area the aboveboard ends, the bronze of the Nun Plangia Magna, the wealthiest woman of the city-limits was erected. From there one passes to the Colonnaded Street. Abaft the artery is Stoa / Banal Way, 4 metres wide, with shops added behind. The a lot of arresting columns on the artery are the four marble columns with Corinthian capitals, 7 metres high, bizarre with reliefs symbolising Apollonius, Artemis, Calchas the hero and Fortuna, Goddess of luck. At the end of the Colonnaded street, Acropolis Nymphaeum/Monumental Fountain, 21 metres long, is visible. In the Acropolis, baptize cisterns of assorted sizes were congenital during the Byzantine era and it is anticipation that the acclaimed Artemis Pergeia Temple aswell existed here. The basal of the banal way in the Agora, amidst by bifold rows of granite columns with Corinthian capitals, is bizarre with geometrical motifs bizarre with coloured mosaics. Abaft the banal way are little shops in the anatomy of commutual cubicles. The attribute of anniversary boutique is formed in abatement on the marble on top of the access door. There is a annular architecture in the average of the Agora aboveboard and it is anticipation that this served as the benefactor of the baptize network. The Agora aboveboard is aswell advised as a amplitude where, in age-old times, the burghal folk, disciplinarian and humans of altered amusing classes met, spent their leisure time, occasionally played bifold amateur of assorted sorts and discussed the bartering – political problems of the city-limits and performed their accessible events. The charcoal of the city’s sewerage arrangement can aswell be apparent appear the South of the Agora square.

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The citizenry of the city-limits added with the advancing of those abiding from the Troian War forth with the added Anatolian peoples. Xanthos which served as the basic of the Lycian Federation accustomed in the 6th aeon B.C. was besieged by Harpago, the Persian Commander, in 540 B.C. Xanthians who clung to their ability courageously resisted to the occupiers. If rendered alone they aggregate women and accouchement in a architecture on the acropolis and set it on blaze and they themselves committed suicide by jumping off from the acropolis, 100 m high, into the brook Xanthos. 80 families who happened to be abroad during this time of accumulation suicide alternate to the city-limits afterwards a while and rebuilt the city. In 334 B.C. they resisted to Alexander, the Macedonian King, the way they did to Persians, however, in the end, they had to yield. Subsequently, the city-limits anesthetized into the easily of the Egyptians, Seleucids and Rhodians.

In 168 B.C. it was included aural the re-established Lycian Federation. With the amphibian business thriving, the city-limits went above the borders of acropolis and was adorned with new structures. In 42 B.C. if the Roman Brutus besieged the city, the city-limits folks, in the way their ancestors did centuries ago, set the city-limits on blaze in adjustment to anticipate the capturing of their women and accouchement by the adversary and committed suicide. According to the adventure the Romans were affected by this accident and they adored 150 humans from those.

In 41 B.C. Emperor Marcus Antonius encouraged the development of the city-limits and Xanthos which becoming the acknowledgment of the Roman Emperors during the Pax Romana aeon accomplished its heydays. The city-limits became the apostolic centre during the Byzantine era. It was broke and alone afterwards the Arab raids afterward the 7th aeon A.D. Advancing through the apple appear the north, the charcoal of the acropolis walls are seen. Climbing up from actuality one arrives at the agora of aboveboard plan. The obelisk/inscribed bedrock in the aboveboard is erected aloft a abundant burying chamber. The epigraph is inscribed in the Luwian/Etruscan accent and has a monolithic, bright structure. It has 250 curve and is inscribed on all four abandon of the massive rock. It is about the ballsy acts of Lycians in their war with the Persians.

In the south of the aboveboard is the theatre of which the foundations were laid during the 2nd aeon A.D.. It was congenital as it appears today during the Lycian era. Opramoas, of Rhodiapolis, donated 30 thousand Denarii to the architecture of the theatre. The caveas of the theatre with a basement accommodation of 8 thousand are disconnected into two with a diazoma. There are 16 tiers at the lower and 4 tiers at the top sections. The façade of the two-storeyed date architecture is bizarre with columns and reliefs. It has 5 date doors on the lower floor. Immediately to the west of the theatre aerial are two awe-inspiring tombs advised as the attribute of Xanthos, basic of Lycia. The aboriginal one of these is the Harpies Monument. It is in the anatomy of a burying alcove placed aloft a block rock ascent aloft a bright caked pillar, 8 m high. It is bizarre with the reliefs of descriptions of the ancestors of a Lycian hero, three men, women, pomegranade and siren. Their originals were banned to the British Museum in London and are on affectation in the anteroom of the aforementioned name there.

The cairn adjoining to this one is the rock belvedere and the Lycian blazon sarcophagus accustomed aloft a bright burying chamber, 5 m high. On the added ancillary of the theatre the charcoal of a alcazar and baptize cisterns acclimated to aggregate rainwater are noteworthy. The capital top allotment of the acclaimed Nereid Cairn is in the British Museum in London. The delineation of 12 dancing changeable Nereids in the reliefs gave this name to the monument. The city-limits has two necropolises with lion’s figures. On the western ancillary the additional agora of the city-limits and the charcoal of a basilica congenital during the Byzantine era are visible. Touristic canoeing and rafting tours are organized on the brook Eşen today.

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The springs of the brook Eşen breeze through abrupt and attenuated rocks average the abysmal valleys of the Taurus mountains from Altınyayla in the south of the age-old city-limits Tlos. On the coast into the apparent they run abolition down the sheer-cliffed attenuated basin which is alleged Saklıkent communicable the eye with its accustomed beauties. The basin is acceptable for rafting and carnival hiking. There are trout restaurants and barbecue sites at the access of the valley.

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The city is reached by passing the 2 m wide Moka Bridge, made of a single large arch and stone blocks. According to the Hittite inscriptions, the area is situated within the Pithassa/Pisidia region. The city folk reputed for their fighting merits and heroic acts sided with the Trojan King Hector during the Trojan War, exacted tribute on some cities and, during the Persian occupation, served as mercenaries for them. The most important historical event of the city is the war of Pednelisos waged against Pednelisos in the north in which the city retreated, accepting the heavy conditions of the war. Later they were subordinated to King Amintas of the Galatians, which was a Nordic tribe just like themselves, except that in every epoch they used and maintained their own language. During the Byzantine epoch Vikings within the Byzantine army rebelled against the Byzantium and upon losing the battle fought against the Byzantine army, they escaped towards the Selge area, thus causing their traces to disappear. Owing to the displacement of the overland trade route which gradually connected Central Anatolia with the Pamphylian littoral towards Kremna and Ariassos, and the pillages, the people abandoned Selge and settled down by the coastal cities. It is understood that Selge was encircled with walls all around and that between the walls it had a great city gate, guarded by watch towers on both sides. The most important remains are the theatre, where there were 30 caveas on the lower floor and 15 caveas on the upper floor, and passage between caveas was ensured by 12 steep stairs.

The spectators’ section is divided in the middle by a wide diazoma and the armchairs made of block stones on the diazoma are striking. According to the inscriptions, it is understood that competitions were organized here every 4 years and that the statues of the champion sportsmen were erected. In the godly space to the West are the remains of the chief god Zeus and his temples and in the south are those of the Temple of Sanda, Anatolian God of Masculinity and War. In the lower part of the godly space a water cistern used to collect rain water is visible. To the east of the ancient city was an Agora measuring 50×50 m in dimension, open on the southern side, with rows of shops on the other three sides surrounded by columns. The 120 m long structure to the north is thought to have been a basilica dating to the Byzantine era. Furthest east is the Necropolis of the city. On the northern slope of the Necropolis hill three great tomb houses are visible which have partly survived until the present time.

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The first of the remains are the city walls understood to have been built between two straits. It is understood that the walls were built at a height of 9 m, and the 5 m high city gate was located in the middle. There is a quadrangular agora behind the gate. In the southeastern part of the Agora is the odeon with 6 seating benches where, in addition to music concerts, the meetings of the administrative council of the city are held.

In the northwestern part of the Agora one can see a chapel with a single apsis with polygonal external apsis walls, understood to have been built during the Byzantine era. In the north of the Agora, 20 meters ahead, are the remains of a Temple of Apollon with a single cella and marble podium. It is understood from the stones of ruined walls in front of the temple that a further inner wall was built as a result of the dangers involved during the periods that followed. On the western slope of the land where the remains were found is a sacred cave where baptism rituals were carried out in ancient times, which still holds drinking water even today. To the west of the cave, on the slope are the remains of a Roman bathhouse complex with mosaic laid floor consisting of three main sections in the middle and various chambers at the sides. To the southwest of the bathhouse is a great basilica with coloured marble slabs on the floor under which are sarcophagi are found.

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It is understood that the cult, having been adapted to the area, took shape in the form of the trio Leto, Artemis, Apollon. Letoon which was established as a sanctuary in the Lycian Federation fell, like all the other Lycian cities, under the rule of the Persians in the 5th centry B.C., however, the Persians respected and did not damage this city. The sanctuar maintained its existence and functionality from Alexander to the Romans. The missionary activities during the early years of Christianity gave result with the propaganda of identifying the Mother Goddess Lada/Leto with the Holy Virgin and her son Apollon with Jesus Christ and thus, Christianity became spread throughout the area. Notwithstanding this, the sacred site of the pagan belief was preserved.

The Arab raiders striving to spread Islam during the 7th century A.D., as soon as having landed on the shore, ruined Letoon, the target laid. One first encounters in the area the remains of three temples built alongside each other. The first one is the peripteral order temple Leto Temple, Ionic in style, and the adjacent one was built in association with a faith before Leto. The third temple known to belong to Leto’s children Apollon and Artemis was again built of peripteral order and its floor was paved with coloured mosaics. To the north of the sacred site is the theatre with 26 caveas visible. 16 masks were found at the southern entrance some of which belong to deities and some to mythological characters. Situated at the northern entrance is an interesting tomb. There is no sign of a stage building.

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