The State Agora

A place to go and see with a museum card 60 TL

If you have the opportunity to go see it, you will love it!

In the hollow area between the mountains on both sides of the city, probably BC. The square built in the 1st century AD. At the beginning of the 1st century it covered an area of ​​160 × 58 m. Three sides of the square are surrounded by columned galleries. The western border is formed by a wall made of cut blocks and on which many monuments stand. The 'State Agora', together with the other structures around it, became the political center of the city, starting from the reign of Emperor Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD) at the latest.

The semicircular structure, also known as the Maly Theater, stands on a hillside north of the agora. According to the inscription, it was built in 150 AD. NS. Publius Vedius Antony. The original purpose of the odeon was the bouleuterium, the seat of the city senate. The first indoor structure, designed for 1,400 seats, was used alternately: either for meetings of the Senate, then for theatrical performances. The architectural solution of the odeon is similar to the classical models: the auditorium with its two-tiered semicircle of rows, divided into four main sectors by stairways; the design of the proscenium suggests that the building was intended more for Senate meetings than for theatrical performances. Although there is a version that the theater was not used at all due to the lack of devices for draining rainwater