Selinus Antik Kenti

About Selinus Antik Kenti

Selinus is an ancient city in Gazipaşa, set on and around a hill that juts into the sea, south-west of the marina and the Hacı Musa stream. It was settled in the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods. The death of the Roman emperor Trajan in the city raised Roman interest in it, and for a time it was known as the Holy City of Selinus Traianopolis. Most of the surviving remains date from the Roman period. Among them are the city walls, the agora, a large and a small bath, the tombs of the necropolis, an odeon and the building known as Şekerhane or Şikarhane, which was used as a hunting lodge in the Seljuk period. The acropolis stands on the hilltop and is reached by a stairway of around eight hundred steps; its church and cistern survive. The other buildings are on the shore and the slope, among them baths, agoras, the Seljuk pavilion, an aqueduct and the necropolis, which includes a monumental tomb. Most of the ostotheks in the Alanya Museum came from the Selinus necropolis, which suggests the city had a workshop. The Culture Portal notes that Gazipaşa buses run from Antalya and Alanya.