Limyra Archaeological Site

Limyra lies at the southern foot of Mount Toçak, some 9 kilometres east of Finike, in Antalya province. Its Lycian name, Zemuri, appears in inscriptions and shows that people lived here from at least the 5th century BC. The city had its golden age in the first half of the 4th century BC under the Lycian king Perikle, when it became the region's capital. It flourished again in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, and under Byzantine rule it was a bishopric before being abandoned after Arab raids in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The acropolis in the north has an inner and a lower castle. The lower castle includes fortification walls, cisterns, a Byzantine church and the heroon of Perikle, a monumental tomb of the 4th century BC whose architecture resembles the Nereid Monument at Xanthos. Important parts of it are on show in the Antalya Museum.

Down on the plain, beside the highway, stands the theatre, built in the Hellenistic period and repaired in 141 AD. Below the road, the stream Limyros divides the remains into eastern and western parts, enclosed within Early Byzantine walls.