This
city of great religious importance has the oldest known church in the
world
- the Grotto of St. Peter. Sts. Peter and Paul preached here in 50 AD.
The
Hatay Museum, with its famed collection of ancient Roman mosaic pavements,
is adjacent to a delightful covered bazaar leading to Greek and Syriac Orthodox
churches and the oldest and best preserved Sephardic synagogue in Turkey.