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Photo Gallery
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- Mount Latmos
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- Another view of the mountain
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- The moonscape around Kapıkırı
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- The road to Kapıkırı
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- Kapıkırı
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- Another view of Kapıkırı
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- The Temple of Athena
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- Another view of the Temple of Athena
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- A well-preserved market building in the former agora of Herakleia
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- Carian-style (rock-cut) tombs outside Kapıkırı
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- More Carian-style tombs
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- The ruins of a Byzantine fortress just outside Kapıkırı
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- The Walls of Herakleia
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- Note the steps cut into the rock to support the walls’ foundations
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- Climbing up to the citadel…
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- Looking down from the citadel
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- The highest part of the walls
Practicalities
Kapıkırı is a 20 minute drive from the coastal highway (D525). The village has several excellent pensions, and makes a convenient base for visiting the many other ancient sites in Caria and southern Ionia.
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Bibliography
George Bean, Aegean Turkey (London, 1966), 211-16
M. L. MacDonald, “Herakleia under Latmos” in R. Stillwell et al. (eds.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (Princeton, 1976)
Anneliese Peschlow, Herakleia am Latmos. Stadt und Umgebung; eine karische Gebirgslandschaft (Istanbul, 2005)