Myra Ancient City

Beautiful place, an open air museum, ticketed at 300 TL per person, may take around 1 hour of your time or maybe more if you wish to introspect...consists of rock tombs and ruins of a grand performing theatre....use the free car park then 5 mins of walk till you reach the ticket counter, galleries and gift shops decorates the way upto the ticket station, washrooms available near the ticket counter.... Download the turkish museum app (forgot the name) and then scan your ticket's QR code to listen to the audio guide which gives you a perspective as you walk through the ruins of 5th century BC community!!!
The tombs can be photographed from outside and then you can walk upto the theatre....view from every angle is wholesome....so enjoy it from the ground level and then climb up a unique 2500 year old staircase to reach to the top and take your pics from everywhere.....
We had a nice lunch and fresh orange juice at a local shop located at the car park....but you may bring your own snacks/lunch and have them there.
We went there in January which is supposed to be an off season time and thus we did not have any crowds....which added to our experience!
Overall, it's a great place to spend some hours of a day if you are staying in a city nearby....we travelled from Antalya and the trip was worth it for us!!

P.S: I hear there is a church nearby which is assumed to be Santa claus's inspiration...but we could not go there so can't comment much on that.....

I find it really amusing how a community survived so far away so long back in time which is even till today an isolated place!!!!

Really enjoyed this visit to Myra Ancient City, Ruins and Rock Tombs. Easily accessible to people with disabilities. Toilet are very clean and helpful staff.

the place is amazing with lots of beautiful rocks and old buildings from the Roman age. they craved into the mountains and made rooms and houses. Also, there is a big arena with the traditional Roman theater Roman amphitheater. People who like history would love this place very much. The ticket for tourists is 185 Turkish lira but if you are a church citizen, you can enter it for free with museum cards.

Beautiful historical place, even the kids enjoyed it (with little help of stories and imagination), very very hot though.
By the entrance lots of souvenir shops but with a decent staff - freshly made orange juice for 1$ was really needed.

It was small area to walk around but powerful indeed. The theatre was really well preserved. Stone graves also impressive. I imagine that like I am walking to the Minas Tirith's graves of elders. Couldn't hold myself to think like how they done it. It was nice to see and worth the time and money. Place has toilets and local market, some cafe places around so don't worry about them.

One of the biggest surviving theatres. Amazingly well kept tombs. Got to wonder whether the theater was used for funeral processions as opposed to entertainment as the audio guide suggests.

We visit this on end of June during Eid Al Adha but not too crowded. You can enter with stroller but limited. Still need to go up through the stairs to see nicer view but we ended up not going up cause we brought our toddler and don’t want her to overheat.

Ticket price 300 Turkish lira(about 10.5 euros)
Defeneltely a part of world history which worth a visit.

I have lost count of how many ruins we have visited between Turkey, Italy, Croatia, and Greece, but this one was very unique in that the necropolis was built into the side of the mountain. Plus the amphitheater is in amazingly pristine condition, most definitely worth the time to visit.

Impressive, historical place. However, the prices were changing so quickly, they did not even have time to update their tickets. You may use Muze Kart (60 TRY) to enter here if you are Turkish citizen. For foreigners prices are high and no full pass opportunity available.

Absolutely wonderful visit, in March it was not crowded at all and cost only 90 TL per person. Definitely worthy of a visit. Left me in awe. Was really gorgeous.

Breathtaking ancient ruins and graves carves inside the mountain. Truly an unforgettable spot. Parking is easy. There are a couple or free parking lots provided by a few touristic facilities. They dont charge you for parking but they expect you to get something small. We got orange juice so you might as well can contribute to these places.

55 TL ticket to visite the tombs and the roman Theater .
it nice to be there, but there is alot of places inside need to be renovated and open for public, there is no road to the Castel up.

This ancient city is very beautiful you can see gravestones of people that are made in the rocks this day it is Forbidden to go inside. Another x you could you that the reason is some drunk tourist from Russia went all down or themselves and maybe die beside the gravestones you can see the huge amphitheatre that has around 10000 places for people today they use it for more than theatre or some concerts you can go inside you can climb and you can experience the view of old times

One of the important cities of the Lycian union, how they carved these hard rocks is interesting at that time.

MYRA ROCK GRAVES The most splendid building of Myra is the rock graves . In the 5th to 4th century BC , Myra was one of the important representatives of the Lycian Classical Period with its rock facades that imitated wooden architecture . There are two main necropo is in the east and south of the acropolis . The city of the dead , created by imitating the architecture of life beside each grave , also creates an uninterrupted panoramic city view by composing a civil settlement imitation . As well as a road network connecting the city's neighborhoods and the Acropolis and Necropolis areas , there are also passageways and rock stairs that provide access to the grave groups within each Necropolis . The differences in the type and characteristics of the tombs provide important information about the social status of the tomb owner . Rock graves are dated to 4th century BC . 23 of the graves are inscribed , 13 of them are Lycian , and 10 are ancient Greek . Except for the three of them , the tombs in the Myra necropolis , which are distinguished by their impressive reliefs on the pediment and the naos frieze , and the temple facades in the templum in antis ( Distylos in antis ) and peripteros form , are the type of house tomb , which is typologically differentiated in itself according to the covering systems and façades . There are twenty - three reliefs , which are important for their iconographies , giving information on their qualities and burial customs in 10 of the Myra rock graves . Scenes are an important group of the reliefs of the Lycian Classical Period . The temple on the eastern necropolis has a façade and the lion has a pediment in which the bull struggle takes place . In the frieze on the door , the grave owner lying . in the center is depicted on the Symposium stage with her family , while on the side is the Artemis Myrrh , the goddess of plants / nature . Another grave type named as Pictorial Grave , 11 human figures in the relief program come to the forefront with a realistic and subtle depiction of the figure . The remnants of paints ( red - blue - yellow ) . which can be seen in today even a little , show that these descriptions were painted in a very colorful style in the Classical Period . The facade of the grave was chosen as a relief . Left side there is Grave Lord who lied on the lectia with levitate riton by his hand and across him , his spouse and children , beside grave on the rock surface , is located depictions of visitors .
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Interesting burial tradition of one of the ancient civilisations. Goats at the roman theater are very funny. I enjoyed my visit there.

Near to St. Nicholas' Church, this site offers a view of ancient tombs dug in the mountain side and amphitheater.Myra was an ancient town in Lycia renamed Demre. Beautiful and well preserved semicircular Roman theater, rock tombs, and impressive mask carved in stone. Myra was one of the six most important cities of ancient Lycia, along with Xanthos, Patara, Olympos, Pinara, and Tlos. This is definitely a location not to be missed when you visit region of Antalya.

A good place to see the ancient ruins of the Roman amphitheater and to see the rakes.

Stunning, a have-to-see.Visited the actual home of St Nicholas in Myra in Sept 2019. This was a Lycian, then ancient Greek, then Greco-Roman, then Byzantine Greek, then an Ottoman town in Lycia which became the small Turkish town of Kale, in 2005 was renamed Demre in the present-day Anyalya Procince of Turkey. In 1923, its Greek inhabitants had been required to leave by the on foot of a population exchange between Greece and Turkey, at which time its church was finally abandoned. I wonder is this the Lycia that was mentioned as the home area of the Gladiator in the movie.