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Cleopatras Gate

TIME : 2016/2/19 2:49:25

Walk 1km southwest of the Old City along İsmetpaşa Bulvarı to get to the Roman Kancık Kapısı, literally the 'Gate of the Bitch', but better known as Cleopatra's Gate. Despite the name it has nothing to do with the Egyptian queen, although she is thought to have had a rendezvous with Mark Antony here in 41 BC. Heavy-handed restoration has unfortunately robbed it of any sense of antiquity.