SILIFKE

Silifke, the focal point of the old Cilicia was set up by Seleukos, one of the officers of Alexander the Great in the third century B.C. The acclaimed fortification, worked in the seventh century merits seeing even today with the towers, basement and the storage. Additionally the extension over the Göksu stream with its six curves close to the city merits seeing. 

An engraving on the extension says that the structure was worked by Emperor Vespasianus and his children Titus and Domitianus. The German Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa, who told the third Crusade, suffocated as he was attempting to cross the waterway. 

The Aya Tekla church in Silifke additionally has unique significance ever. It was builti n 337 AD by the Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great, who was likewise the originator of the Byzantine Empire and was devoted to Saint Thekla, one of the Saint Paul's followers.

UZUNCABURÇ
Arranged 30 kilometers norh of Silifke, Uzuncaburç was worked over the vestiges of the ancient city of Olba, known with the name Diocesarea in the rule of Emperor Vespasianus, The ancient theater from the second century A.D. a fantastic door worked in the Roman period and the Temple of Zeus, implicit the Corinthian style in the third century A.D. are the essential attractions in the town, that merit seeing.