Iassos Fish Bazaar Museum

It was restored with Turkish-Italian cooperation and opened to visitors in 1995 as an Open Air Museum. This building complex consists of a mausoleum arranged in the form of a prostyle temple with a podium in the middle of a rectangular area, and arched porticoes surrounding the area. Guidi, who visited the city in 1920, said that this place could be a fish market (macellum) considering the size of the building. Grave M.S. II. It is dated to the century. The dimensions of this square planned area are 40x 48 meters, and the tomb structure is 10x7 m. in size.

It has been preserved and opened to visitors in its original state with very little intervention.. Architectural example worth seeing.. Also, Hellenistic and other period pieces from the environment are exhibited.. I recommend it to those who love history...

The point that should not be missed during a visit to the Iassos Ancient City, which is not a fish market but a mausoleum, is in good condition and more "owned" than the ancient city.

It's a small place but there are many beautiful sculptures inside. Under the statues is written what period it is from. A few English texts hang on the walls, I wish there was a Turkish translation next to it. There is a toilet outside. It is very interesting that a village house was built right next to such important places. Unfortunately, there is no desire to find more remains. Such places are not given the necessary value.

"Italian scientists, who were the first to work in the area, thought that this buried area was the fish market that Strabo mentioned. That's why it was called the fish market. It was surrounded by a portico (portico) on all four sides with the excavations carried out in the 1960s, whose identity could not be determined in the middle. It has been determined that it is a structure where a mausoleum (mausoleum) is located."

Strabo tells the importance of the fish market here with the following story. During a concert by a musician giving a recital in the city. The bells ring, signaling the opening of the fish market, and everyone who hears this sound leaves without waiting for the recital to end, only an old man who had a hard of hearing and covered his ears with his hand while the bells were ringing. The musician thanks the old man and says that everyone who heard the bell had left the recital. Then the old man, who heard the bells ringing, thanked him and went to the fish market. Italian scientists, who were the first to work in the area, thought that this buried area was the fish market that Strabo was talking about. That's why this place is called the fish market. With the excavations carried out in the 1960s, it was determined that this is a structure surrounded by a portico (portico) on all four sides and in the middle of which there is a mausoleum (mausoleum), whose identity cannot be determined.