The monumental gate was called Hercules' Gate because the images of the hero wearing the skin of the Nemean lion carved on the pillars.
The gate is located in Ephesus, towards the end of the “Curetes” Street. In order to narrow the access to the street, preventing the passage of vehicles, the gate was disassembled and brought to its current place from another place in the fourth century AD. The gate structures and Heracles’ reliefs embellishing the gate date back to the second century BC.
Hellenistic bass-relief
Approx. 2nd century BC
Ephesus, Turkey
Nemea (ελληνικά: Δήμος Νεμέας) is a tourist attraction, one of the Archaeological sites in Heraklion, ግሪክ. It is located: 60 km from Argos, 275 km from Athens, 295 km from Patras. Read further
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