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(Breakfast lunch dinner included)
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After breakfast, visit Perge: It was settled by the Hittites around 1500 B. C. Kestros (Aksu)
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river, which runs near acropolis, made Perge like a port because it was possible to navigate.
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An important trade route starting from Side run through Perge. It is also famous by the fact
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that when St. Paul started his journeys, he visited Perge in 46 A. D. and preached his first
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sermon here. That's why it became an important city for the Christians during Byzantine
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period. To understand the importance of the city it is necessary to visit its remains. You can
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see the ruins of the antique theatre (capacity 12, 000 people), its stage has marble relieves
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depicting the life of Dionysos; a stadium, which is in a shape of "U" for 12, 000 people;
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remains of the first church built in Perge, an agora, which has dimensions of 76x76 m. and
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it's surrounded by Corinthian columns, in the middle of it there is a round temple of Tyche
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(2nd century A. D. ); a basilica - another structure from Christian Era with three entrances,
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a good example of a Roman Bath in the southern part of the city, and Hellenistic gates which
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later were converted into a court of honor by Plancia Magna.
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Side: The furthest city in the east of historical Pamphylia. Situated on a peninsula about
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1000 m long and 400 m. wide, it fulfilled its duty as a commercial port. Naturally, Side used
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to be one of the most important trade centers in the antiquity and now it is one of the most
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popular holiday resort in Turkey. Side tan the name "Side" meant pomegranate, the fruit
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symbolizing abundance and fertility. Like the other Pamphylian cities in general, Side was
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ruled by Lydia in the sixth cent. B. C. and Persia after 547 B. C. The coins minted in here
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prove that Side had at least an internal independence. Alexander the Great conquered Side
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in the first year of the great campaign on Asia in 334 B. C. and was introduced to Hellenistic
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culture.
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Kursunlu Waterfalls, located 19 km from Antalya at the end of a 7 km road branching off to
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the north of the Antalya-Serik-Alanya highway at a point 12 km from Antalya. The waterfall
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is on one of the tributaries of the Aksu river and its situation in the midst of a pine forest is
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of quite exceptional beauty. The countryside around the water forms a lovely picnic and
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pleasure spot only twenty minutes from the centre of the city of Antalya. Overnight in
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Antalya
