Datça is a small harbour and holiday resort located south of the Datça Peninsula, which provides a natural boundary between the Aegean Sea to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The town, which is located 75 km /47 miles away from Marmaris.The Hellenistic walls, both insular and continental, can be traced in many places, especially round the acropolis. The main ruins of the city which rose in tiers on the hill slopes, consist of the agora, the great upper and the small lower theatres, the odeon, the Temple of Aphrodite, the Corinthian Temple, the Temple of Demeter. The Statue of Demeter, discovered during the excavations executed by Newton in 1857-1858, was sent to the British Museum, as well as the colossal Statue of a Lion, carved out of one block of Pentelic marble, which crowned the pyramid roof of a mausoleum located 3 km/ 1.9 miles south-east of the city.