Apollonia (Lycia)

These are the ruins of an ancient city in historical Lycia in the south-west of Turkey, near the village of Kilicli (aka Sicak) in the Kaş district of Antalya province. A city of Lycian origin, the first traces date back to about 500 BC.

Acropolis with double walls (an older palisade and a later Byzantine wall), two churches, a theater, baths with cisterns, a heroon sanctuary and six columnar tombs. Residential buildings huddled on the southwestern slope.

Under the Romans, Apollonia did not live on its own, but was part of a local union-sympolitia together with Symena, Isinda and Aperlama - something like an ancient cooperative of cities. Later, in the 6th-7th century, the Byzantines ruled here.

This is a Lycian feature: six such tombs in the northern necropolis are the main evidence of the early, pre-Roman age of the city. They look like stone pillars with a burial on top.