Aspendos, located about 45 km east of Antalya city center, is famous for having the best preserved Roman theatre in Anatolia and the Mediterranean. The city was founded on a hill plain near Köprüçay (ancient Eurymedon), one of the largest rivers in the region. Aspendos, which owes its access to the Mediterranean and its development to the nearby river and thus to the fertile lands around it, is today visited mainly by the theatre and waterways. The ruins of other buildings belonging to the city are located on the plain of the hill where the theatre rests. 

The most brilliant period of the city is undoubtedly the Roman Imperial Period when the famous theatre and waterways were built.