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 amid at a ambit of 75 km to the west of the Antalya bigoted centre on the abruptness of Mount Musa and aural “Olympos-Beydağları National Park” breadth the brook of the aforementioned name joins the sea. The name of the city-limits is acquired from “Aluamapa/Oluamapa/Olyamapa” in the Luwian/Etruscan language. In the Luwian language, “Olu”, which is a aberration of “Alu”, agency light/sun and in the Luwian and Hittite languages the chat “Ama” agency “mother”. We apperceive that the chat “Pa” agency water/creek/lake. It is accepted from this that the name of the city-limits was “sacred baptize bounce of the absolute mother of light/mother of sky”. Indeed, the bounce of the Olympos brook is today alleged “Gökpınar” with the aforementioned association. Furthermore, in the Luwian accent the chat “olyntos” meant agrarian fig. The alley cairn Stadiasmus, in Patara, depicts the city-limits of Olympos on the abruptness of the Mount Musa.

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