Via Sebaste

The Via Sebaste road, once among the most important highways of Anatolia, was first built 2000 years ago by the Romans to connect the rich harbours of the Mediterranean coast with the Pisidian highlands and western Turkey. Its best preserved section remains at the mountain pass near Clymax, a small roadside town that still preserves a mansio (a Roman hotel) and a large han (a Medieval inn for donkey or camel caravans). This stretch of road, sided by churches, chapels, pagan temples, water cisterns and small inns, is one of the most impressive sections of the Pisidia Heritage Trail. Its paved stones, smoothed to a shine by millions of feet, hoofs and wheels, are a witness to the ancient travellers of Pisidia.