Pamukkale / The Cotton Castle

Pamukkale - Cotton Castle

PAMUKKALE (Cotton Castle) say Turkish people to this terraces which are made of travertine. Travertine is a form of limestone deposited by mineral springs, in this case by hot spring. The location of this beautiful travertines is Denizli in southwestern Turkey. In the Denizli area there are 17 hot water springs where the temperature of the water changes from 35 °C to 100 °C.

This magnificant place is visited from tourist which are coming from all over the World. Pamukkale travertine is just one attraction, this place is also well known and recognized as a World Heritage Site together with Hierapolis. 

The ancient Greko-Roman and Byzantine city of Hierapolis was built ot the top of the (For the Map, Please visit the link "Map of Hierapolis") white "cotton castle" which is about 2.700 m long and 600 m wide and 160 m in hight. This place is 20 km far from the city Denizli.

Hierapolis Theatre

Hierapolis, the former Roman Bath of the ancient city has been used as Hierapolis Archaelogy Museum since 1984. Besides to the travertine and ancient theatre in this museum there are also artifacts remainings from Colossae, Tripolis Laodiceia, Attuda and other towns of the Lycos valley which is called Çürüksu in turkish.

The Roman Theater which is seen on the left dates back to the 2nd century and had a capacity of 12,000 seats. Two Emperors, Hadrian and Septimius Severus, were responsible for its amazing construction. The theatre was restored in the 1970's but work is still continuing on the site. Hierapolis had about 100,000 residents, but was destroyed several times by earthquakes.

Antic Pool

Hospitality was very important at those tmes therefore Romans built the SPA city of Hierapolis so that their visitors could experience and enjoy the therapeutic thermal baths. This Antique Pool has remnants of marble columns scattered a long the pools ground. It is an attraciton amoung the tourists to swim in the pool. 

The pool is popular among the tourist because of its atmosphere where people feel themselves like ancient people and because its chemical content. The pool has benefits for the health which are functional diseases of heart and blood pressure, obesity, constipation, chronic gastritis,  catarrhal diseases of upper respiratory tract, chronic bronchitis, inflammatory rheumatic disorders in remission stages, postoperative rehabilitation of orthopedic operations.

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