Myra Rock Tombs
Open until 7:30 PM
Antalya, Demre, Yaylakaya Mah.
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21 review
February 4
The tombs are located in the mountainside and represent a two-hundred-meter wall consisting of large stone blocks with tombs. All of them have different shapes, but they must have window and door openings.
This custom of burying the bodies of the dead in such tombs is based on the beliefs of the Lycians. They believed that after the soul leaves the body, it rushes high into the heavens, and to help it in this, such high tombs were erected. The higher the tomb is located, the richer and more noble a person was during his lifetime.
Many Lycian tombs are about two thousand years old.
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May 17
It's impressive. Even a slightly creepy place is a crypt in the mountains for the nobility, military, rich and able to afford ordinary Lycians, it turns out to be a kind of city of the dead in the mountains. Over time, the facades of the tombs are destroyed by the winds. If you believe the historians, there were burials of more than one generation. Excursions and passage are paid. Nearby there are Parking spaces, toilets, cafes.
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March 6
It's beautiful, it breathes history. But the price for just looking seemed high to me. I got in the car, drove in the direction of Antalya for 10 minutes, and lo and behold - the same tombs are in abundance along the road, and absolutely free!
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