Tlos
Tlos is an ancient Lycian city. Numerous rock tombs are cut into the side of the acropolis hill, of which the so called Tomb of Bellerophon is the most famous.

Pinara
Once a great city, Pinara is believed to have existed since the Trojan War and perhaps even earlier.

The town is built on two acropolis hills. Many sarcophagi are scattered about the main acropolis hill. To the south are rock cut house tombs and remains of a Christian church, an Odeon theater a large house-type tomb dubbed the Royal Tomb, believed to be the funerary monument of a prince. Inside the Royal Tomb are various relief's of different Lycian cities.

Ghost Town of Kaya
Kaya was once a wealthy Greek town of 5000 people. The Greeks abandoned Kaya as part of the general population exchanges between Greece and Turkey at the end of the Greco - Turkish War of 1919 - 1922.

Kaya today is an eerie ghost town that is worth an early morning stroll. Hundreds of houses with their roofs crumbled from the quakes that rocked the region, remain standing along rock paths. Two well preserved churches, one built in 1888 and still having frescoes depicting biblical scenes, remain intact. Several chapels exist below the church on the hill.

Xanthos
This town stands on a rocky plateau high above the largest and fullest river in Lycia. Heredotus relates the tragedy of this city as follows: in 540 BC and once again in 42 BC, upon encountering a brutal enemy force threaten their city, the natives collected their children and women in a castle and set fire to them and then marched to the enemy many times superior to them in power and fought until death. Only 150 Xanthians survived to rebuild the town. The points of interest are the Hellenistic Town Gate, Nereid Monument Temple, the Theater, tombs and relief's.

Letoon
This ancient site is partly submerged by the rising water table. The site's principal feature is the foundations of three adjacent temples to Leto (said to have been the lover of Zeus) and to her children Apollo and Artemis. To the north is a Hellenistic stoa and a well preserved theater. An interesting feature of the theater is the series of 16 masks above the entrance.

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