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The tender for the reconstruction of the Patara Neron lighthouse was carried out by the Antalya Government’s Investment Monitoring Coordination Department. Barbaros Mühendislik Limited Şirketi received the tender from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for 9 million lire, including VAT. A scientific board will be created for the restoration of the Nero lighthouse. A stone hospital will be created in the area. Here in 2004, the head of the excavation of the time, Professor. Dr. Fahri Işık and later professor who took over the excavation presidency. Dr. The original 2,600 stones belonging to the lighthouse unearthed by Havva İşkan Işık will be classified and the interior and exterior walls of the stones will be built.
LIGHTING TO THE REGION AFTER 1968 YEARS
According to information obtained from officials of the Antalya Governorate Investment Monitoring Coordination Department, the restoration of the Neron lighthouse will be completed in 2 years. The tower of the Nero lighthouse, approximately 26 meters high and 6 meters in diameter, will be rebuilt with original stones on the 6-meter podium completed in the first restoration that began in 2011. The lantern will be landscaped. The square circumference of the podium is 80 meters and its area is 400 square meters. Built in 54 AD when the restoration is complete, the lighthouse will begin to shine in the area after 1968.
SECOND LIGHTING OF THE SEA IN THE WORLD
The Patara lighthouse was built by the Roman emperor Nero as a prestigious project in 54 AD. There is an inscription in the history of the lighthouse, by whom it was made in gold letters. Built as the second lighthouse in the world, the lighthouse was built as two. However, someone remained under the sand. The world’s first lighthouse is known as the Alexandria Lighthouse in Alexandria, Egypt. However, the Nero Lighthouse is the first lighthouse to be raised with its original stones. Nero’s lighthouse is estimated to have collapsed in the earthquake that occurred in 1481. In the stone inscriptions unearthed in the excavations, Sexto Marcias, the governor of the Patara Assembly and the people of Patara, said: “We thank the Lycian people for 8 years without taking bribes, just because they ruled our city with beautiful structures. “
Turkey will contribute in a very significant way to the tourism governor of Antalya Munir Karaoğlu given so much importance in the restoration project, an important cultural heritage of the Lycian Union city, rose again.
