Sunday, January 2, 2011

Aphrodisias an old city as a tourist attraction in Turkey



One of the old city in Turkey was a relic known as the Hellenistic era, the holy city. Aphrodisias is one of the oldest sacred sites in Turkey. Because the city has a shrine for the offering goddess Aphrodite or the Goddess of Beauty. Dedicated to the ancient Mother Goddess, it is the location of the magnificent Temple of Aphrodite and the home of a renowned school of marble sculpture




Aphrodisias also offers the ruins of a large theater, stadium and other structures, as well as on-site museum that displays artifacts. In Aphrodias also have a building where the gladiators fought. Each local men clashing maintain self-esteem and showed the strongest to the goddess. The battle around 30,000 spectators who witnessed it will stop when a gladiator was killed at the hands of his opponent

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