Termessos Ruins

This guide to the ruins of Termessos above Antalya opens in 333 BC, when Alexander the Great marched south and stopped at the sight of this fortress city a thousand meters up in the Taurus Mountains. You'll hear about the Pisidian people who built it, the theatre cut into the cliffside where thousands once watched plays above the plain, and the sealed sarcophagi scattered through its necropolis. A tip: walk down to the theatre first for the view that likely gave Alexander pause.