--- title: "Telmessos – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Telmessos, Turkey: Telmessos or Telmessus, also Telmissus, later Anastasiopolis, then Makri or Macre, was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/telmessos" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/telmessos.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Fethiye_Rock_graves_6975.jpg/1920px-Fethiye_Rock_graves_6975.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Ancient city in Lycia · Turkey # 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Fethiye_Rock_graves_6975.jpg/1920px-Fethiye_Rock_graves_6975.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Telmessos · Dosseman The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telmessos), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Letoon 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letoon_trilingual) 2. Kızılada 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lada_Lighthouse) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Telmessos **Airports:** Dalaman (DLM), 31 km · Rhodes "Diagoras" (RHO), 95 km · Milas Bodrum (BJV), 147 km\ - Bodrum → Telmessos Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bodrum-to-telmessos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bodrum&to=Telmessos) - Antalya → Telmessos Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/antalya-to-telmessos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Antalya&to=Telmessos) - Gaziemir → Telmessos Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/gaziemir-to-telmessos) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Gaziemir&to=Telmessos) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Telmessos) Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Sky Marine Ferries sail Apr-Oct daily to Rhodes, taking 1 hr 45 minutes. - Get in Their 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 in Ferries no longer sail to other Aegean ports such as Marmaris. - Get in Private cruises explore the Lycian coastline but these are round trips not point-to-point ferries. - Get around Dolmuş minibuses run throughout town; routes you might use are west to Karagözler, north to Çalış, and south to Ölüdeniz. From [Wikivoyage: Fethiye](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Fethiye), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Kastellorizo](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kastellorizo) GR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 67 km 2. [Naxos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/naxos) GR 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 328 km 3. [Mykonos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mykonos) GR 12 ways of moving, 23 sources 349 km 4. [Gökçeada](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokceada) TR 11 ways of moving, 39 sources 486 km 5. [Mount Athos](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mount-athos) GR 9 ways of moving, 21 sources 574 km If you know how people move in Telmessos – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ctelmessos&title=Telmessos&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ftelmessos), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Telmessos - [Q207998](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/q207998) district and town in Muğla Province, Turkey 400 m - [Hisarönü](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hisaronu) neighborhood of Ölüdeniz, Fethiye, Muğla Province, Turkey 5.3 km - [Carmylessus](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/carmylessus) ancient city of Lycia in modern-day Turkey 5.5 km [The place page for Telmessos](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/telmessos) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Turkey](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-TR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/telmessos, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt