Teos Örenyeri

About Teos Örenyeri

The ancient Ionian port city of Teos near Sığacık in Seferihisar, settled since around 1000 BC according to excavations cited by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Its most important monument was the Ionic Temple of Dionysus, attributed by Vitruvius to the architect Hermogenes, and the city hosted the guild of Dionysian artists of Ionia and the Hellespont in the 3rd century BC. Visitors can see the theatre, the semicircular bouleuterion with 16 rows of seats, stretches of Hellenistic city walls about 3.7 km long, and the well-preserved pier of the southern harbour. The site opens every day from 08:30 to 17:30, with the ticket office closing at 17:00.