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Evening Standard
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Radhika Aligh

From Ephesus to Sagalassos: a road trip around the ancient cities of Turkey

I could be standing on the very spot Alexander the Great once stood after conquering Sagalassos, the first city of Pisidia.

Located 1,500 metres on top of the mighty Taurus Mountains, Sagalassos was once a thriving metropolis, a place of power and wealth, decorated with large-scale monuments covered with intricate designs. A series of earthquakes left most of the city under rubble until its recent discovery in the 1980s.

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