Köprülü Canyon National Park
National park preserving a mortar-free Roman bridge still in use above a fourteen-kilometer river gorge.
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Köprülü Canyon National Park near Antalya centers on the Eurymedon Bridge, a Roman span built without mortar across a hundred-meter-deep gorge in the second century. You'll hear about Selge, the mountain city eleven kilometers upriver that the bridge once connected to the coast, and the trade in timber, iris oil, and resin that crossed it. The guide traces what became of that powerful city after a fourth-century earthquake struck. Listen to the Köprüçay River below as you cross the ancient stones.
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