Syedra Ancient City

Syedra lies about 20 kilometres along the Alanya-Gazipaşa road, within the boundaries of Seki village. Visitors enter through a monumental gate in the west that is still standing. Inside, plastered cisterns fed by a natural spring have been in use from antiquity to the present, and many other cisterns supplied the city's water.

In a cave within the city, the niche cut into the rock is framed with frescoes. The cave served religious purposes and is known as the baptism cave. In the east of the site is a very grand bath, whose floor still shows patches of mosaic, and just west of it runs the city's colonnaded street.

Excavations by Alanya Museum since 1994 have shown that this street measured 250 by 10 metres, covered on the north side by a timber roof carried on columns and open on the south with stone paving. Inscriptions with information about games and competitions add to the city's importance. Other remains include a temple, a theatre, shops, houses and the city walls. Remains found span from the 7th century BC to the 13th century AD.