APOLLON SMINTHEION ÖRENYERİvisitor guide.

The Smintheion sanctuary was an important cult center of the Troad in Antiquity. In the Sanctuary of Apollo Smintheus (Smintheion), one of the major Late Hellenistic sanctuaries in Anatolia, remains of a prehistoric settlement dating to roughly 5000 BC were identified. The Temple of Apollo Smintheus is located at the foot of the valley between the northwest and northeast of Gülpınar town (formerly Külahlı), in an area known as Bahçeler-içi. The Gülpınar Temple of Apollo Smintheus commands attention through its architectural design and style alongside relief friezes depicting scenes from Homer's Iliad, a unique theme for the Hellenistic period. Erected around 150 BC in the Ionic order, the temple stands as the sole example of its type in northwestern Anatolia and the Troad today. The temple employed the pseudodipteral (false double-colonnade) plan designed by Architect Hermogenes, who left a defining imprint on Hellenistic Anatolian architecture. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS TROY MUSEUM ALEXANDRIA TROAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE TROY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE ASSOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE