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Parque Gulliver

Parque Gulliver

PARQUE GULLIVER

This massive concrete Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputiand

CONTRIBUTORS: Rachel, EricGrundhauser, mdschill

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In Gulliver's Travels, the titular character is tied down by fearful Lilliputians who climb all over him in an attempt to subdue the "giant" and visitors can relive this famous literary scene at the Parque Gulliver in Spain.

This surreally large play park is constructed to resemble a giant stylized Gulliver which kids and adults alive can climb all over a slide down. The structure features multiple slide and stairways hidden around the massive body and hidden in the concrete folds of his clothes. The park's sleeping colossus is so large that even the strands of Gulliver's hair are huge slides. Gulliver's towering hat lies off to the side of the playground as though casually dropped at his side, and in a meta-flourish there is a miniature model of the recumbent Gulliver park so that visitors can get an idea of what the site looks like from above

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The massive Gulliver.

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Parque Gulliver

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Land of Oz Theme Park

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Stuart Landsborough’s Puzzling World

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Lycian Tomb Uçagiz

LYCIAN TOMB UÇAGIZ

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian 

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netta Black, Rachel, serflac

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Teimiussa lies directly east of today's village of Üçagiz, you can visit some of the ruins at the eastern end of Üçagiz's harbour.

Not much is known about the history of the city and it has no known coinage.  Tombs with Lycian inscriptions point to settlement by the fourth century BC.  The city seems to have had ties with Myra and Cyaneae.  An ancient road leads directly from it to Cyaneae and some of Teimiussa's tombs bear inscriptions saying that they belong to citizens of Cyaneae and Myra.  Teimiussa was probably a small settlement tied administratively to these two cities.

The main ruins here are a necropolis to the east with a large cluster of sarcophagi, mainly from the Roman period.  The oldest ruins are a few rock-cut house-type tombs at the eastern end of Üçagiz's harbour.  One of these has a relief of a nude young man and an inscription tells us that the tomb belonged to a person named "Kluwanimiye".

At the eastern end of the city is a large dock, 28 metres long and 8 metres wide, carved out of living rock
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