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Crusader Fortress
On the hillside behind the town, just north of the road to Kayaköy, notice the ruined tower of a Crusader fortress built by the Knights of St John on earlier foundations dating back to perhaps 400 BC.
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Fethiye Museum
Among its most interesting exhibits, Fethiye Museum has some small statues and votive stones (the Stelae of Graves and Stelae of Promise) and the trilingual stele (Lycian-Greek-Aramaic) from the Letoön, which was used to decipher the Lycian language. It describes how King Kaunos gave money to do some good work in honour of the gods. The ethnography section has some interesting Ottoman-era exhibits although it's sometimes closed.
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Sarcophagi
Throughout the town you will notice curious Lycian stone sarcophagi dating from around 450 BC. There's one north of the belediye and others in the middle of streets or in private gardens - the town was built around them. All were broken into by tomb robbers centuries ago.
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Theatre
Behind the harbour you'll see the excavated remains of a theatre dating from Roman times.
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Tomb of Amyntas
Behind the town is the Tomb of Amyntas, an Ionic temple façade carved in the sheer rock face in 350 BC. It gets crowded at sunset in summer, the most pleasant time to visit. It's a steep climb up steps to get there; on a hot day it's worth first considering how much Lycian funerary monuments really mean to you. Other smaller tombs lie about 500m to the east.
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