Temple of Apollo

Worth coming! Very large, ancient and well preserved!

Fantastic old relics. So Nice to walk around. Cute shops and restaurants around the Temple. If you go to Didim you must visit Apollon Temple.

Worth a visit to this marvelous place. Very close to the Didim city center. You can explore the ancient history in every corner at the Temple of Apollo.

Even you will only see the temple and not the complete city, Didyma offers you the best temple reconstruction of the area. Lot of columns and two wonderful marble ramps to visit oracle area. You can enjoy lot of details on the columns and get the idea how it would have been to walk around at the original temple. One board explains temple was never finished and it makes you think also how complicated it was to build this huge temples...

A must see location for sure! (Also surrounded by nice coffee and gift shops. We bought hand made baby dolls from one of the stands at quite fair price. )

Temple of Apollo Didyma (now Didim) was not a city in ancient times but a religious centre, and its astonishing Temple of Apollo was the ancient world's second largest; with its 122 original columns it had only five fewer than Ephesus' Temple of Artemis. Since the latter has only one column standing today, visiting Didyma really helps travellers visualise the lost grandeur of Artemis' temple, too. In Greek, Didyma means 'twin' (here, referring to the twin siblings Apollo and Artemis). There were many temples dedicated to the mythological god. Famous for his ability to heal, it comes as no surprise to learn the temple of Apollo in Didim was a popular sanctuary and one of the most famous oracles in the world.

It was raining but thanks to this we were the only tourists on this beautiful place. The columns are so wide and made out of marble that everytime that we turn it makes one go wow.

Amazing Roman history within walking distance of central Didim. It's very near to Ataturk Boulevard. Ticket price 30 lira for entry, about 2 dollars. Surrounded by pretty cafes and historic houses. Fantastic to see a historical wonder at close range, some parts much more well preserved than I had expected. You can take some amazing photos here too. And there's a small gift shop inside the site which has some pretty and inexpensive gifts. Definitely worth seeing