Gazipasa (Selinus) Attractions

Some 50km/30mi southeast of Alanya on the coast road along the "Turkish Riviera" is the little town of Gazipasa. The town itself stands about 3km/2mi inland from the sea, on an alluvial plain formed by a number of streams flowing into the Mediterranean at this point. Here the headland known to the ancients as Cape Selindi falls steeply to the sea in almost vertical cliffs, its summit crowned by a ruined castle. In antiquity this was the site of the Phoenician town of Selinús (sela = "cliff"). In A.D. 117 the Emperor Trajan died here while returning from his Parthian campaign. For a period thereafter the town was known as Traianopolis.