Cappadocia & Central Anatolia - Discover Turkey: Experience the Best of Turkey - page 531

Pamukkale

Sleeping

1 Artemis Yoruk Hotel B2

2 Hotel Hal-Tur A1

3 Kervansaray Pension A2

4 Melrose Hotel B4

Eating

5 Kayaş B2

6 Mehmet's Heaven B1

7 Mustafa's B2

HIERAPOLIS
Hierapolis' paved pathways, well-trimmed hedges, flower-filled expanses and park
benches are far more genteel than most Turkish archaeological sites. To see an ancient site
on flat and well-maintained terrain, this is the place.
The curvaceous mountaintop means that the city's ruins are relatively compact, with the
main sites easily accessible. The ruins evoke life in a bygone era, in which Greeks and
Romans, Jews, pagans and Christians, and spa tourists peacefully coexisted.
Hierapolis became a curative centre when founded around 190 BC by Eumenes II of
Pergamum. It prospered under the Romans and Byzantines, but recurrent earthquakes
eventually brought disaster, and Hierapolis was abandoned after a 1334 tremor.

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