Eflatun Pınar (Turkish: Eflatunpınar, transl. Plato's Spring) is the name given to a spring, which rises up from the ground, and the stone-built pool monument built at the time of the Hittite Empire. The spring lies inside the Lake Beyşehir National Park, 85 km (53 mi) west of Konya, and drains into Lake Beyşehir in central Anatolia at ancient Pisidia region. During the Late Bronze Age, a sacred pool monument was built here in trachyte ashlar masonry dedicated to the sacred spring cult of ancient Hittites. The monument was interpreted as a shrine to Plato during the medieval (Seljuk) period.

Photographies by:
Dr._Colleen_Morgan from York, UK, USA - CC BY 2.0
Noumenon - CC BY-SA 3.0
Zones
Statistics: Position
6277
Statistics: Rank
12252

Add new comment

CAPTCHA
Security
356184972Click/tap this sequence: 2556
Esta pregunta es para comprobar si usted es un visitante humano y prevenir envíos de spam automatizado.

Google street view

Where can you sleep near Eflatun Pınar ?

Booking.com
491.620 visits in total, 9.211 Points of interest, 405 Destinations, 93 visits today.