#hierapolis

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Antique city of Hierapolis

above Pamukkale, Asia Minor, Turkey. Destroyed by an earthquake in 1334. Photo taken during a visit in 2006 with my first viable digital camera (a Kodak).

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Pamukkale, Bursa and beyond 🌅

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ANCIENT CITIES OF TURKEY by Mehmet Koray Kose

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Hierapolis, Turkey

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Dejamos Konya y nos dirigimos a Pamukkale. Son más de 5 horas de coche pero nos espera una experiencia inolvidable.

Al llegar lo primero recuperar energías en el hotel con “vistas” 😎

Luego a las 17:30 salimos hacia el recinto de Pamukkale (ya solo hay 40 grados C).

Entramos por la entrada sur cerca de las ruinas de Hierapolis. Antigua ciudad balneario que tuvo su mayor esplendor en la época romana.

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Beauty of Nature ♡ on the fields of Hierapolis

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Pamukkale’nin Beyaz Cennetine Yolculuk: Termal Sular ve Travertenler

https://www.tenedos.tr/pamukkalenin-beyaz-cennetine-yolculuk-termal-sular-ve-travertenler/

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✨ Pamukkale – Turkey’s Hidden Paradise You Need to Visit! 🇹🇷💦

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Natural Wonders at Ruined Hierapolis

"The mysterious chasm of Hierapolis, with its deadly mist, has not been discovered in modern times; indeed it would seem to have vanished even in antiquity.** It may have been destroyed by an earthquake. But another marvel of the Sacred City remains to this day. The hot springs with their calcareous deposit, which, like a wizard’s wand, turns all that it touches to stone, excited the wonder of the ancients, and the course of ages has only enhanced the fantastic splendour of the great transformation scene. The stately ruins of Hierapolis occupy a broad shelf or terrace on the mountain-side commanding distant views of extraordinary beauty and grandeur, from the dark precipices and dazzling snows of Mount Cadmus away to the burnt summits of Phrygia, fading in rosy tints into the blue of the sky. Hills, broken by wooded ravines, rise behind the city. In front the terrace falls away in cliffs three hundred feet high into the desolate treeless valley of the Lycus. Over the face of these cliffs the hot streams have poured or trickled for thousands of years, encrusting them with a pearly white substance like salt or driven snow. The appearance of the whole is as if a mighty river, some two miles broad, had been suddenly arrested in the act of falling over a great cliff and transformed into white marble. It is a petrified Niagara. The illusion is strongest in winter or in cool summer mornings when the mist from the hot springs hangs in the air, like a veil of spray resting on the foam of the waterfall. A closer inspection of the white cliff, which attracts the traveller's attention at a distance of twenty miles, only adds to its beauty and changes one illusion for another. For now it seems to be a glacier, its long pendent stalactites looking like icicles, and the snowy whiteness of its smooth expanse being tinged here and there with delicate hues of blue, rose and green, all the colours of the rainbow. These petrified cascades of Hierapolis are among the wonders of the world. Indeed they have probably been without a rival in their kind ever since the famous white and pink terraces or staircases of Rotomahana in New Zealand were destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

Along the road into Hierapolis, the "petrified cascades" mentioned by Frazer above.

(Source: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

“The hot springs which have wrought these miracles at Hierapolis rise in a large deep pool among the vast and imposing ruins of the ancient city. The water is of a greenish-blue tint, but clear and transparent. At the bottom may be seen the white marble columns of a beautiful Corinthian colonnade, which must formerly have encircled the sacred pool. Shimmering through the green-blue water they look like the ruins of a Naiad's palace. Clumps of oleanders and pomegranate-trees overhang the little lake and add to its charm. Yet the enchanted spot has its dangers. Bubbles of carbonic acid gas rise incessantly from the bottom and mount like flickering particles of silver to the surface. Birds and beasts which come to drink of the water are sometimes found dead on the bank, stifled by the noxious vapour; and the villagers tell of bathers who have been overpowered by it and drowned, or dragged down, as they say, to death by the water-spirit....

A pool of Hierapolis, with submerged columns.

(Source: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

"We cannot doubt that Hierapolis owed its reputation as a holy city in great part to its hot springs and mephitic vapours. The curative virtue of mineral and thermal springs was well known to the ancients, and it would be interesting, if it were possible, to trace the causes which have gradually eliminated the superstitious element from the use of such waters, and so converted many old seats of volcanic religion into the medicinal baths of modern times. It was an article of Greek faith that all hot springs were sacred to Hercules.... Hot springs were said to have been first produced for the refreshment of Hercules after his labours; some ascribed the kindly thought and deed to Athena, others to Hephaestus, and others to the nymphs. The warm water of these sources appears to have been used especially to heal diseases of the skin; for a Greek proverb, 'the itch of Hercules,' was applied to persons in need of hot baths for the scab...."

The basilica baths of Hierapolis.

(Source: shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

—J. G. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, part 1 (The Golden Bough, vol. V, 1914, pp. 206-210)

**Frazer's footnote: "Ammianus Marcellinus [c. 330-c. 395 C.E.] (l.c.) [=loco citato, "in the place cited," which here refers to Rerum gestarum libri qui supersunt] speaks as if the cave no longer existed in this time" (p. 207).***

***OP note: In Rerum gestarum libri qui supersunt (XXIII.vi.1.18, 1871, ed. By F. Eyssenhardt). What Ammianus Marcellinus says of the chasm of Hierapolis has been translated into English by C.D. Yonge (1862, via The Tertullian Project; also see scanned orig. via Internet Archive): “There used, as some affirm, to be a similar chasm near Hierapolis in Phrygia; from which a noxious vapour rose in like manner with a fetid smell which never ceased, and destroyed everything within the reach of its influence, except eunuchs; to what this was owing we leave natural philosophers to determine.”

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