Pamukkale is a city of Türkiye famous for the stunning travertine terraces and thermal water pools.
Pamukkale means “cotton castle” in Turkish. “It alludes to the height and white color of the monument, which reminiscents snow and which contrasts strongly with the surrounding arid plain,” describes the.
O travertine It is a type of rock consisting mostly of calcium carbonate that deposits in the waters of springs rich in minerals.
But in addition to travertine terraces, Pamukkale is also the home of thermal sources that bubble at the top of a 200 meter high cliff overlooking the city.
The water drips through the mountain slope, lining the calcium carbonate rocks that accumulated during millennia, forming a white limestone crust.
Pamukkale’s travertins have become so thick that they resemble a small glacier seen from above and from afar. Although they look like a winter paradise, they are situated in a hot and sunny area from southwest of Türkiye.
The water that goes down the slopes is equally hot – between 19 and 57 degrees Celsius – and can reach boiling temperatures. Accumulates in basins that formed on the slopes in Socalcos, creating Natural Hot Baths and Infinite Pools.
These waterfalls are formed with each other, with Stalactites and other limestone formations that grow along protrudes up to 6 meters high, where the water flows… Since thousands of years.
The “cotton castle” that inspired an old cult
Pamukkale is classified as UNESCO World Heritagebut the list highlights much more than the effervescent pools of the place.
Travertins have attracted visitors Since antiquity. The ancient Greeks, in particular, built thermal baths, monuments and a complex channel system to bring water from the spring to the villages and neighboring fields.
As Live Science tells, the Actal Kings of Pergamon – an ancient Greek state that ruled much of Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period – even created a Thermal city called Hierápolisclose to travertins, in the second century BC, whose ruins still exist today and are classified by UNESCO.
Many years ago, The place housed an old cult.
Hierápolis reached his heyday in the II and III Centuries DC, after the ancient Romans took account and rebuilt the city following an earthquake.
Traces dating from the Greco-Roman domain and the later Byzantine period include Several spa, a monumental arc, a theater, a necropolis, a ninfeu (monument dedicated to water nymphs) and temples ruins.
