Myra features some of the most impressive and well preserved Lycian monuments in the country, including an excellent collection of rock tombs.
The Lycians seem to have held a belief that the souls of their dead would be transported from the tombs to the afterworld by a sort of winged siren-like creature, and so often placed their tombs along the coast or at the top of cliffs when they were not integrated into the liveable areas of the cities.
(Location: Myra (Demre))

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