Old Harbor of Antalya

About

Attalus II picked this half-moon cove beneath the cliffs because it was the only sheltered anchorage on an otherwise harborless stretch of the Pamphylian coast. Roman engineers reinforced its breakwater with massive cut-stone blocks, some still visible underwater today. Grain, timber, and Pamphylian goods moved through its roughly 100-meter basin for more than two centuries before 117 CE. The same harbor, now a yacht marina, has stayed in continuous use for over two thousand years.

In ancient writing

• Strabo, Geography 14.4.1

  Strabo describes Attaleia as a city founded by King Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamon, who also had the harbor's entrance narrowed on his own orders.

Sources

• https://neristour.com/blog/the-roman-harbor-of-antalya-antalya-marina
• https://turkeytravelplanner.com/go/med/Antalya/sights/harbor.html

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