IASOS SITE

City of Artemis and Apollo, it was founded by settlers from the city of Miletus. With time, the island joined the land to become a peninsula. Not much remains of it. Firstly because of the successive wars from the 2nd century. Then, because the Turks used part of the ruins that they moved to Istanbul for the construction of various buildings. The remains of the walls - the boulê (city council), the agora and the mosaics in a Roman villa - are the major parts still visible.