From a cultural perspective of territory analysis, this paper aims at exploring the creation process of the religious space that led to the invention of the city as a Hierapolis. Based on the ways in which the religious dimension of the territory was conceived from the miracle of the cart and its subsequent interpretations, the study goes further on the spatial representations and spaces of representation along the centuries and on their result which forms the current religious setting.
Se busca establecer qué tipo de estrategias han planteado los comerciantes teniendo en cuenta su posición y resaltando a la vez las relaciones de poder (económico y político), en el conjunto de la sociedad, al tiempo que se refleja espacialmente en la construcción de la ciudad.