About Eflatunpınar
Eflatun Pınar (Turkish: Eflatunpınar, transl. Plato's Spring) is the name given to a spring, which rises up from the ground, and the stone-built pool monument built at the time of the Hittite Empire. The spring lies inside the Lake Beyşehir National Park, 85 km (53 mi) west of Konya, and drains into Lake Beyşehir in central Anatolia at ancient Pisidia region. During the Late Bronze Age, a sacred pool monument was built here in trachyte ashlar masonry dedicated to the sacred spring cult of ancient Hittites. The site has been identified with the "spring pool of Arimatta" mentioned in a treaty between Hittite King Tudhaliya IV and King Kurunta of Tarhuntassa, which is preserved on a bronze tablet found at Hattusa. The monument was interpreted as a shrine to Plato during the medieval (Seljuk) period.
This description is taken from Wikipedia and published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Eflatun Pınar
Location and Access
Eflatunpınar is located in Beyşehir district, Konya. Coordinates are 37.82570, 31.67470. You can get directions from the map below. You can request a licensed local guide for Konya.
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Quick Facts
- Province Konya
- District Beyşehir
- Category Nature & Outdoors
- Coordinates 37.82570, 31.67470
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