Apollon Temple

This guide to the Apollo Temple in Side, near Antalya, examines the five Corinthian columns still standing from a second-century Roman temple, built when Side's harbor economy, driven partly by its role in the slave trade, was at its wealthiest. It traces how earthquakes, Arab raids, and abandoned worship left only these five columns of an original ring of more than thirty. Look up at the carved frieze above you before you move on.