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Antiocheia ad Cragum 54 pictures 2.15 minutes HQ video The site is located at the east of Gazipasa, 60 km east of Alanya. The site has taken its name from the King of Kommagene Antiochus IV who lived in the 1^st century A.D. The ruins of the city are located on three hills that strech out towards the sea. On the first hill, from west to east, there is a castle dating back to the Roman and Byzantine eras. On the second hill there is a colonnaded street, an agora, a bath, a victory arch and a church, and a necropolis on the third hill. The barrel vaulted memorial tombs with their pre-entrance porticoes are well preserved and reflect a style peculiar to the region. The temple in the area must have been built for the god "Zeus Lamotes". In the city center, there is a building called Triconchos whose three walls were made in apsis shape and supposed to have had religious function. Back to Turkey Index