Cape Gelidonya

This is a promontory on the Teke Peninsula where the Taurus Mountains reach the sea on the southern coast of Anatolia in Turkey. It lies between Antalya Bay and Finike Bay.

Near the cape, at a depth of about 27 meters, lies a wreck of a Late Bronze Age ship, approximately 1200 BC, of ​​Mycenaean origin. It was here in 1960 that an underwater shipwreck was fully excavated for the first time - no one had done anything like that before.

Mycenaean ceramics, copper and tin ingots, scrap copper and trade weights. In fact, it was a floating warehouse of the Bronze Age that did not reach its destination.

In the times of classical Greece, the cape was called Chelidonia, that is, "swallows". The Romans called it Promontorium Sacrum - Sacred Cape. Today, the Gelidony lighthouse stands on it.