The tourist season officially kicked off this week at the spectacular Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı), a 50-metre high artificial hill built in the 1st century BC during the Kingdom of Comagene as a royal tomb for King Antiochus I, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.
Located in the Kahta district of Adıyaman Province, Mount Nemrut is one of the main tourist destinations in southeastern Turkey, a region that was particularly hard hit by the devastating earthquakes that ravaged this entire region of Anatolia a year ago. However, Nemrut Dağı was not affected by the earthquakes, and tourist visits have recovered rapidly over the past year as the situation in the region has returned to normal.
Tourists visiting this incredible site, which is situated at an altitude of 2,200 metres and from which it is traditional to watch spectacular sunsets, marvel at the impressive statues placed during the Kingdom of Comagene for the tomb-mountain of the Hellenistic king Antiochus I (70-31 BC). The statues underwent major restoration work in 2022 – just before the earthquake – to repair small cracks within them, works that have proven to be successful after the quakes.
Speaking to the media, one of the first tourists to visit Mount Nemrut after the opening of the tourist season was in absolute awe of the site: “It’s magnificent. I’ve travelled to many places in the world, I’ve been to many places in Europe, but I’ ve never seen anything like this. It’s really impressive, fascinating,” commented a Turkish tourist travelling from Istanbul. “We came all the way here by bicycle from France. It was extremely difficult to climb, but what we saw here was magnificent, and it’s worth it,” said a French tourist couple who has been doing tourism in Turkey for a month.
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Pablo Gómez is a specialist in Turkey and has been editor-in-chief of Hispanatolia since 2011. He has been analysing current affairs and geopolitics in Turkey and the surrounding region since 2006.
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