Aphrodisias was a second-rate city in the Roman empire. It had a stadium with capacity for 30,000 spectators, a theater that could accommodate another 8,000, and buildings that gave access to the Via Sacra.
On the other hand, the school of sculptors that flourished in the city was at the mercy of some nearby marble quarries that turned it into one of the best marble gens in the world. A theater with 2,000 years of history, remains of temples, homes, a swimming pool... The fascinating story of a site discovered in the mid-20th century by the Turkish photojournalist Ara Güler, who documented every corner of the city in ruins in the southwest of the country. The Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea has seen all Mediterranean civilizations pass through over the centuries. It is not surprising that fabulous cities arose there, whose ruins are today a mandatory stop on every tourist circuit in Turkey: Troy, Pergamon, Ephesus...