Places to visit in Olympos:

• Northern harbour street and the docks
• Bridge
• Acropolis
• Theatre
• Roman Baths
• Gymnasium and the small basilica
• Harbour baths
• Southern harbour street and the entrepots
• Basilica
• Citadel
• Citadel of the Middle Age
• Monumental graves in the harbour
• Monumental grave of Likiark
• The building with mosaics
• Temple
• South-Western necropolis

It is located at a distance of 75 km to the west of the Antalya provincial centre on the slope of Mount Musa and within “Olympos-Beydağları National Park” where the creek of the same name joins the sea. The name of the city is derived from “Aluamapa/Oluamapa/Olyamapa” in the Luwian/Etruscan language. In the Luwian language, “Olu”, which is a variation of “Alu”, means light/sun and in the Luwian and Hittite languages the word “Ama” means “mother”. We know that the word “Pa” means water/creek/lake. It is understood from this that the name of the city was “sacred water spring of the supreme mother of light/mother of sky”. Indeed, the spring of the Olympos creek is today called “Gökpınar” with the same association. Furthermore, in the Luwian language the word “olyntos” meant wild fig. The road monument Stadiasmus, in Patara, depicts the city of Olympos on the slope of the Mount Musa.
 
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