The Site of Hierapolis

During our trip to Turkey, we visited this site of Hierapolis. It is now labeled as a Unesco world heritage site, quite an interesting place to visit. When we were informed that we will be visiting the city of Hierapolis I had a very different picture in my mind. I thought actually it would be kind of a big city with lots of ruins structure, but that was not the case. It is one site where there are some remains of the ancient times and now they have been converted in to museum sites. Hierapolis was a Hellenistic Greek city. Hierapolis was a Hellenistic Greek city. The surrounding landscape of this place is stunning. Adjacent to it is the Pammukale thermal springs, which is breathtaking to watch and experience.

We had a day to do both of these, first we visited the thermal springs, spent some time there and then visited this site. It was a rainy day so sadly I could not take many pictures at the thermal springs, since that was outdoors, but this one I could manage to click some. It is said that Hierapolis was a propserous and flourishing city in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. but then there was a earthquake and it destroyed the city. Later it was rebuilt again in the 60 A.D. Right now what we see in this place are the remains of the Greco-Roman period include baths, temple ruins, a monumental arch, a nymphaeum, a necropolis and a theatre. The theatre is almost similar to the one in Athens.

Again here I wanted to go up to the theatre which was at a distance from the site but then we were given a limited time by our tour guide and that was not sufficient to climb up and come back again, so we had to see it from a little distance only. These are some disadvantages of a going in a group tour. Our overall tour was not a group tour but this particular day trip we had selected to do a group tour for convenience and cost both.

There were different areas. In this place they have retained all the findings from the Hierapolis theatre.

I enjoy watching these kind of art pieces of the past, just so fancy and classy.

That's the statue of Triton, he is the Sea God and the son of Poseidon who was the most powerful god of the Sea and Horses. This is a broken statue, but normally there is a conch shell in his hand, which is said that it was used to calm or arouse the sea.

That's hubby and son, I forced them to pose up...haha. They were like, of all the places you want us to pose here, and I was telling them, yes, because outdoors it's drizzling so better indoors :-)

That's the Amphitheatre I mentioned we could not climb up.

That's a small chest made of limestone.

The banner says it all

That's a tomb

A bath tub, such a fancy one

That's the statue of Attis, the god of vegetation and representing the cycle of death and rebirth.

Another fancy bath tubs

So that's it with the visit of Hierapolis.

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