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One of some pictures taken in an - then accesible - field with sarcophagi and monuments beyond the West Gate at the end of the Western Colonnaded Street. I expect it to be opened to visitors later, but in 2018 is was out of bounds. I never saw sarcophagi so close upon another.
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One of some pictures taken in an - then accessible - field with sarcophagi and monuments beyond the West Gate at the end of the Western Colonnaded Street. I expect it to be opened to visitors later, but in 2018 is was out of bounds. I never saw sarcophagi so close upon another.
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One of some pictures taken in an - then accessible - field with sarcophagi and monuments beyond the West Gate at the end of the Western Colonnaded Street. I expect it to be opened to visitors later, but in 2018 is was out of bounds. I never saw sarcophagi so close upon another.
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In the early 2010’s the area we now see was largely covered by earth. Then it first appeared, than was restored at an amazing speed. It is a typical colonnaded street, now called the Western Columned Street with shops along its side. When you come to some sort of half-way gate (I think you pass under a aqueduct that runs there), you pass a sports space (Palaestra and Gymnasium) to the right and a bit later baths (Northern Bath) on the left. At the end of the street to its left there is a Fountain (of Caracalla), then leave town through the Western Gate. Further on (no entrance during my last visit) is an area that is called the Western Necropolis.
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Perga (Greek: Πέργη Perge, Turkish: Perge) was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia and the capital of Pamphylia, now in Antalya province on the southwestern Mediterranean coast of Turkey.
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At the end of the Perge's colonnaded street is a water fountain or Nymphaeum. Water from a stream once flowed over the fountain and then on down the colonnaded streat in a raised channel. The Nymphaeum dates from 130-150 AD. A statue of a river god Kestros is located in the center the fountain.
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After years of being "closed for restoration" the theatre has opened for visitors. Though damaged its skene (scaenae frons ("facade of the skene") has wonderful decoration.
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After years of being "closed for restoration" the theatre has opened for visitors. Though damaged its skene (scaenae frons ("facade of the skene") has wonderful decoration.
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After years of being "closed for restoration" the theatre has opened for visitors. Though damaged its skene (scaenae frons ("facade of the skene") has wonderful decoration.
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After years of being "closed for restoration" the theatre has opened for visitors. Though damaged its skene (scaenae frons ("facade of the skene") has wonderful decoration. This is a computer-generated picture of most of the theatre, though the arched corridor at its top is out of view.
