HATAY ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
The museum is
located on the Cumhuriyet sguare the building was stanted
to constnot in 1939 houever it begon to serve puplic
many  years loten in 1948 with it’s preciaus mosaic collection
it is the second great archeological museum of the world
the exhibited works of the museum are from different
periods like prehistoric, hellenistic Roman and Byzantine.
White Tonb (The Tonb of Antakya) It is discavered et
kışlasaray quanter in central Antakya during the foundation
excauation of a building. The tomb is carued in sidimera
style in which there are a lot of pilars it is from
Roma period.
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ST. PETER's CHURCH
 
The Church is located on the lower slopes of Habib-i
Naccar mountain, 2 km. far from city center, on the
Antakya-Reyhanlı road. It is in a natural cave. After
the cruciffication of christ (First century AD), one
of his disciple St.Peter had come to the city of Antioch
to spread the christion gospel. Even the word of christion
was used for the first time in this chruch. And in 1963
pope paul Vl. Declared the church as pilgrimage site
for christions, since then every year on june 29 the
catholic church holds St.Peter’s festival in this church.
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HABİB-İ NACCAR MOSQUE
The mosquie is on the kurtuluş stret it is named Antakya
resident who was an early follower of christ’s disciple
so that he gave  his life for his beliefs. In the northeost
corner of the mosque 4 meters undergrand there is a
shrine of Habib-i Naccar the mosque was built during
the ottoman tines. It is surrounded with the monrese
(college for religious studies) rooms. In the courtyard
there is a fantain deting from 19. th. century.
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HARBİYE (Defne)
 
The toun of Harbiye is 9 km out of Antakya it was a
summer retreot during the Helenistic and Roma times
it is belicued that Harbiye also hasted the first olympic
cirit games. This ancient toun was reconstnuction by.
Selevkos Nikator l. With it’s fomaus vaterfalls today
it is still a popular excursion for local people.
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SAMANDAĞ ÇEVLİK TİTUS TUNNEL
AND BURİAL GROUNDS
(THE ANTIQUE CITY OF SELEVKEIA PIERRIA)
The antique city is in 25 km. distance from city center.
It was established as an harbour city by Selevkos Nikator
within the oncient city site there are the remains of
temple acropolis and necropolis. The city had on important
role in mediterraneen commercial life. On the other
hand flood water was always big danger for harbor, for
this reasen during the reign of vespasion it was decided
to built a tunel which was completed years lader under
the rule of enather emperer Titus. The tunel is 7 meters
high 6 meters wide and 1380 meters long. Near the tunel
there are 12 burial grounds from roman times. The burial
grands are also known es cradle cave (Beşikli Mağara).
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BAKRES CASTLE
The castle is just above a village of the same name.
The road to the village is on the Antakya-İskenderun
road, 27 kilometers from antakya. The castle is to the
west of the road, on a steep peak amongst the mountains.
Strabon the historian mentions a castle: if this is
indeed the castle to which he refers, it is very old.
The castle served first to protect Belen Pass. Later
it served to protect the Seleucid capital, Antakya.
Durinh the Crusades, it was the most important point
of defense in the Antakya Principality, and control
of the castle changed hands several times. In 1268 Baybars
laid seige to the castle and captured it from the Temple
Knigh.
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OLD ANTAKYA HOUSES
Generally these houses constucted with stane, brick
and wood the front part of the houses are overlooking
to the south and west sides. The mast important characteistics
of them are their Open-space holls with wooden pillars.
Mony of these have large cantyards, ponds, wello and
beautiful gardens surrounded with various flowers end
fruit trees. These two centuries old houses were built
in Anatolion style Today it is still possible to see
them in the old reighbar hoods of the city.
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KOZ CASTLE
 The
castle is located above Harbiye, near a village of the
same name. It is on the Kuseyr road leading to Antakya.
The castle is believed to have been built during the
period of the Antakya Principality to protect Antakya’s
southern regions. The castle was the residence of the
Latin Patriarch. In 1268 the castle was laid seige to
and captured by Baybars. The castle is built around
a peak. Striking features are the two semi-circular
towers constructed of large stone blocks. They are still
in a good state of repair but other sections of the
castle are in a state of ruin.
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ORTHODOX CHURCH
(ST.PIERRE and ST.PAUL)
 
It vas built in 1860, after the big earthquake then
it was rebulit in 1990. ıt is one of oldest ond the
most beautiful churches of all east Orthodox Churches
after jerusalem.
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ARSUZ
Arsuz is a holiday and tourist village located at the
mouth of the Arsuz River, 33 kilometers south of İskenderun.
In seleucid times there was a city by the name of Rhosus
or Rhosopolis at the same site. During Roman and Byzantine
times there was an important port and settlement here.
Around Arsuz, it is still possible to find remains of
an ancient city and its ramparts.
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CHARON
Carved into the mountain side near the church is a bust
of Charon, ferryman over the River Styx in ancient mythology.
The bust dates from the reign of Antiochus lV in the
second BC. It was carved at the height of a plagues
in an effort to appease the gods.
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PROTESTANT CHURCH
This stone church was used as an Embassy Buuilding and
a French Bank in French times. In 2000, this church
started to be used as a Protestant Church by the Kwong
Lins Methodist church.
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TERYST.SİMEON THE STYLITE MONASTERY
The monastery is 15 km away from Aknehir betveen the
Antakya-Samandağ road. The monastery ruins are located
of the top of a 479 meters high montain. The ruins are
within Aknehir municipal banddories. The monastery was
built in the 6 th century AD. et the site on which St.Simeon
had spent 40 years of his life on top of a column.
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SOKULLU COMPLEX
The complex is in the region of İskenderun-Dörtyol Payas.
It is the work of the architeet senan. In the complex
there are 45 shops (Or corvansaray) a public bath men
and women, a mosque, a madrosa and a primoy schad for
boys. Constnctia of the complex was completed in 1574.
opposite the complex is Payas castle.
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ALEXANDRETTA
It was founded by Alexander The Great and called Alexandretta
after his victory over the Persion Emperor Darius lll.
near the city of Issos in 333. B.C. The Remains of a
Phoenician city called Myriandus existed here in ancient
times. The city came successively under the domination
of the Seleukos, the Byzatines, the Arabs and finnaly
Ottomans.
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YENİŞEHİR
Yenişehir which is in the quarter of Yenişehir and around
the Yenişehir lake, was a settlement place known as
İmma during the Roman time. İmma which was demaged by
the wars and the fires in the 12 th. century A.D. was
and badly demaged by on earthqualce in 1171. the remains
of that period can now be seen with in the quarter of
Yenişehir. The Yenişehir lake is the most beautiful
relaxion and picnic site of the Amik plain with its
casinos and restavrants.
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SYNAGOGUE
This building is thought have built as a Synagogue in
the 1700 s. The sacret book “The Old Talmud” which has
a 500 hundred year history, was written on antelope
skin in Hebrew.
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TYCHE OF ANTAKYA
This 8 cm. long bronze statue is found around Mağaracık
village in Samandağ. It is the work of Eutychides who
was one of the famous sculptar of Hekenistic period.
The statue was dated form roman time.
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CITY WALLS
 On
the top of the mountain it is possible to see collapsed
remains of the walls and towers, as well as some remains
of the castle. At one time, the walls had gates opening
toward various neighboring cities (such as İskenderun,
Aleppo, Daphne and Kuseyr). The most important of these
was the Köprü Kapısı (Bridge Gate) which was built over
the Asi River and was the only entrance for roads from
the north. The gate was removed at the end of the 19th.
century. The stone bridge was demolished in 1971 and
replaced.
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The church is on Kurtuluş street in the city center
of Antakya. The Catholics resettled down to Antakya
after a period of 6000 years. Those who came here for
the first time, established a church and a school for
the children of Europeans. The French priests who came
to Antakya later on, established a small monastery.
They got a permission from the sultan of that period
to estanlish a Catholic Church in 1852 and the church
way finally bult after a few years.
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BURIAL GROUNDS
These are lodated to the south of Altınözü, near Yunushan
village. There are a large number of caves and rock-cut
graves which are believed to date from Roman times.
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ISSOS RUINS
It is the region that persion king Darius lll. and macedonion
king Alexander the Great had stnuggled for in 330 BC.
The site was established in Helenistic period and also
surrived in Roma times. Today the remeins of antigue
city and a lot of agueducts are still exist in the region.
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DORTYOL GAZI CIFTLIGI ATATURK PAVILION
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GÜZEL YAYLA (Soğukoluk)
It is reached by an asphalt road in the lenght of 20
km. from Antakya by stabilized road in the lenght of
17 km. from Samandağ. This high plateau which is 500
meters above sea level, is famous for its fresh air
and cold water. This is one of the most important relaxation
places nearby.
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