The people of Sillyon successfully built their city on a rugged rocky area and they have always contributed to the developing civilization in the fertile plains of Pamphylia. They were not satisfied with that either, by spreading over a wide area from the Taurus down to the Mediterranean, they both cultivated the land and lived the sea on the coastline. When the time came, they stood up to the bandits raiding from the mountains and they exported their own products by sea trade to the countries they had never seen. Who lived here – a foreign Persian soldier, Megaleis who fought heroically for his city, philanthropist Menodora, Martyr Saint Tribimis, Echimos who stood on fortification wall swinging swords without fear, castle commander Hamza Bey, and Düriye, the modern heir of the city... They all walked the rock-cut streets and from the Acropolis they watched the vast Mediterranean and the impenetrable Taurus Mountains. On a hot summer day, they drenched their thirst from their fountains and watched the threshing floors.