Telmessos
Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissus, later Anastasiopolis, then Makri or Macre, was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border, and is sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria.
Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissus, later Anastasiopolis, then Makri or Macre, was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border, and is sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria. It was called Telebehi in the Lycian language. The well-protected harbor of Telmessos is separated from the Gulf of Telmessos by an island.
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Worth seeing in and around Telmessos
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Letoon trilingual
The Letoon trilingual, or Xanthos trilingual, is an inscription in three languages: standard Lycian or Lycian A, Greek, and Aramaic covering the faces of a four-sided stone stele called the Letoon Trilingual Stele, discovered in 1973 during the archeological exploration of the Letoon temple complex, near Xanthos, ancient Lycia, in present-day Turkey. It was created when Lycia was under the sway of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
500 m · trilingual Lycian stele from the Xanthos-Letoon UNESCO World Heritage Site · Wikipedia - 02Kızılada Feneri
The Kızılada Lighthouse is a historical lighthouse still in use, which is located on the island Kızılada in the Gulf of Fethiye, southwestern Turkey.
7.6 km · lighthouse · Wikipedia
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Getting to Telmessos
- Airports
- Dalaman (DLM), 31 km · Rhodes "Diagoras" (RHO), 95 km · Milas Bodrum (BJV), 147 km
- Bodrum → TelmessosTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Antalya → TelmessosTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Gaziemir → TelmessosTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Telmessos
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Telmessos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSky Marine Ferries sail Apr-Oct daily to Rhodes, taking 1 hr 45 minutes.
- Get inTheir fast cat leaves Fethiye at 08:30 and sets off back at 16:30, so a day trip from Fethiye gives you six hours in Rhodes, but no reverse day trip is possible.
- Get inFerries no longer sail to other Aegean ports such as Marmaris.
- Get inPrivate cruises explore the Lycian coastline but these are round trips not point-to-point ferries.
- Get aroundDolmuş minibuses run throughout town; routes you might use are west to Karagözler, north to Çalış, and south to Ölüdeniz.
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