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Mediterranean Turkey Southern coast of Turkey lies definitely in the top of the most beautiful coastal surface any part of the Mediterranean. It stretches nearly 600 miles from Fethiye in the west to Iskenderun, near the border with Syria.
Mediterranean coast is divided into several regions so different between them, when they pass from one to another you seem to have come in another country. What all have in common is the advantage of the climate but extraordinary, with 300 sunny days per year. The first region that stretches from Fethiye to Kemer is called Licia, being known as the Coast turquoise and offers the most wild and dramatic landscapes of the coast of Turkey. Mountains descend to the sea shore and there are a lot of wonderful sandy beaches and cities with spectacular ruins that you can explore. Next area, from Antalya to Side, Pamphylia is a fertile region of its payment, and also the mountains, but more than in the Licia. From Alanya, the region that stretches to the border with Syria is called Cilicia, to the west extending to around promontoriului for Silifke, a damaged area, but sparsely populated beautiful. Road driving off the coast offers a grand sight, but tiring.
Cilician Sesul from Mersin to Iskenderun is fasia the less interesting to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, with poor bad tesite and extent industrialized city around Adana. ADANA
Located on the banks of the river Seyhan, Adana is the fourth largest city in Turkey after Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir and is the center of a rich agricultural region and a prosperous industry of cotton. However, in addition to the bridge with 16 or Roman arches and covered bazaar, the only significant building in town is Ulu Camii (Grand Mosque), built in 1507 in black and white marble. Mosque is located on Abidin Pasa Caddesi in the city center, close to the Roman bridge.
The town has several good hotels and is a suitable base for visiting nearby sites. Adan neighborhood Dilekkaya (Anavarza)
The ruins of this beautiful city Byzantine novel include a stadium, graves, an aqueduct, a theater and several basilica.
Located 30 km north of Ceyhan, 72 km north-east of Adana. Hours: always.
Free entrance. Karatepe
An impressive mountain hittite site, presenting more successful sculptures are still in the site.
Located 77 km north of Ceyhan, 129 km north-east of Adana.
Hours: daily 8:30-17:30.
Reinforced with payment.
Kizkalesi (Miss Castle)
An Armenian castle XII century, located 100m offshore, with beautiful palje nearby. It's difficult to visit.
Located 122 km south-west of Adana, the E24 motorway.
Silifke
Silifke is a pleasant town situated on the bank Goksu river, guarded by the crusader castle was acropola, where privelistile are very beautiful. 15 minutes away by car to the west are the caves and Cehennem bizare Cennet (Heaven and Hell).
Located 161 km south-west of Adana, the E24 motorway. Tarsus
Once a charming town with old houses and gardens, Tarsus is famous for was a place where Antoniu cunoscuto on Cleopatra, and place of birth St. Paul, whose real name was Saul of Tarsus.
Located 42 km west of Adana, on the E5. Uzuncaburc (Diocaesarea)
A beautiful city, surrounded by the ruins of a Roman theater, the temple and a Greek tall tower.
Located 38 km north of Silifke. Yakapinar (Misis)
A site that is some beautiful Roman mosaics, the best being the Ark of Noah and Potopul.
Situated 28 km east of Adana. Hours: daily 9.00-17.00. Entry pay. Yilanlikale (Castle serpent)
An imposing castle in the Armenian section. XIII eight towers.
Located 6 km east of Ceyhan, on the way to Gaziantep, 48 km east of Adana.
Hours: always. Free entrance. ALANYA Resort marítime modern and ancient city selgiucid, the most obvious feature of Alanya is imposing rock that was largely also enter Gibraltar. Above cliff is a stronghold of crenelata impressive brick red (red represents bricks building materials favorite selgiucizilor) and below, on either side, stretch beautiful sandy beaches near the modern city with its numerous hotels.
Fort, with the 150 towers of its close-century city. XIII built by Sultan selgiucid Keykubad I, which it used as a summer residence and naval base. Exterior wall is 7 km long and was built in 12 years. Walk leading to the modern town takes about 40 minutes, so many prefer to take a taxi, especially in hot summer days. Inside the city walls you can admire the old gates, Byzantine chapels, delapidat residential neighborhood, mosque, a bedestan (covered market) and a serai and citadel situated right in the top.
Around the Citadel, in the upper walls, lies the beautiful city Ehmediyie whose whitewash houses now host exhibitions tea houses or linen drapery and embroidery for sale. In the old port selgiucid under rock, rises colossa Kizil Kule (Red Tower) built in 1226 to defend the port. From here you can rent boats to explore grottos little ornament that the cliff Alanya.
Located 131 km east of Antalya, on the E24. Hours: always. Free entrance. Citadel is open: Tuesday-Sunday, April-October 9.00-19.00, 9.00-17.00 November to March.
Anamur
Grueling terrain around promoters Anamurul was known for piracy and brigandage in ancient times and today, on the coast or are spread more fortarete ruins.
The best preserved and largest of them is Anamur, Rosicrucians of a castle whose walls and 36 towers are still standing. Located right on the beach, with waves consolation its walls, the castle dominates the surrounding plain
and represented the lowest resistance to land-based Lusignan kings of Cyprus, the island which is less than 80 km away. Inside the castle, using stairs to get in many of the towers. At two kilometers west of the castle hill is covered by the ruins of a Byzantine city called Anemurium, with traces of mosaics and paintings in private housing (it is always open to the public without any fee is charged).
Located 3 km east of Anamur, on the E24. Anamur Castle is open daily between 8.30-17.30. Free entrance.
Antakya (Antioch)
Until 1939, Antakya and this strange piece of land called Hatay corner of south-east of the Mediterranean belonging to Syria. The French have given the Turks this region, in exchange for aid against the German at the Second World War. Located in a pleasant hill town of Antakya stretches Orontes river bank. During Roman, ancient Antioch was a center recognized for the good life, not to say that corruption and making the city worth to be visited today are just remains of those days. They take the form of Roman mosaics that cover floors of houses, providing the best collection in the world. Dating from the Century II and III century BC, are exposed to mosaics archeology Hatay. Besides the museums, the city also has an old Roman bridge that crosses the river and a picturesque neighborhood with bazaars.
Located 193 km south-east of Adana, on the E5, 104 km west of Aleppo.
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-8.30 and 13.30-17.00. Free entrance.
Arounds Antakya
Harbiye (Daphne)
This was the suburbs of Alexandria dedicated pleasure, where were the most villas of dissoluteness and say where he watched the Apollo a nymph Daphne. Bay, the tree turned nympha, still grows everywhere. For buildings not anything left, but gardens and rauletele is still a popular area for picnics the weekend among the residents of modern Antakya.
Samandag
From Antakya to beautiful sandy beaches of Samandag are only 30 minutes away by car. Near the beach are the ruins Seleuciei Persia, the ancient port of Alexandria, once one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean.
Alara Han
At about 39 km from the main road along the coast from Alanya, an indicator signaling ALARA Han inside shore. ALARA Han serai is unusual, with a richly decorated main gate. Hanul (merchants dedicated passenger) is one of the seven located along the road between Konya and Alanya, which is to one day walk from each other. ALARA Han is now completely renovated and opened to the public as a museum. Has a restaurant offering evening with Turkish folklore (open between 9.00-23.00; entry pay).
On the summit hill, north of khan, raised a fortress during selgiucizilor, very beautiful. It will take a whole hour to Get to the top. (Always open. Free entrance) Antalya
This is the largest Turkish Mediterranean, a metropolis rather than a simple town, with its airport and port industry, as well as a modern yacht marina. In addition, the port was mainly on the southern coast of Turkey in the past 2000 years. During Rosicrucians, then started the big armies Holy Land Christian hope to avoid long and difficult march up Anatolia. In front of the old restored neighborhood is a small gravel beach, but the best beaches are in the area Lara, 12 km to the east, where many hotels are concentrated. Park Karaah
Located on the peak rocks on the way to Lara, this park offers spectacular sights of the mountains Licia. Includes a small zoo and a few restaurants located at the edge of rock. Museum
Here you can see exposed statues, mosaics sarcofagesi of ancient cities on the bank near the coast, especially in Perge. Artifacts richness, from the monumental to the joint will be of great help to imagine how our people every day here, as you visit sites such as Aspendos, Perge and Temessos.
Located on the periphery hope Kemer. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon-8.00 and 13.30-17.00. Closed Monday. Free entrance) Old port and marine
Kale, known as the old city, is the most beautiful part of Antalya, with richly ornamented houses Turks gathered on paved alleys, flexuous and steep. The settlement here was born after more than 2000 years and has grown around the natural port at the foot of the hill. Romans fortified port, and during the Ottoman era it was surrounded by walls resistant to a length of 5 km. Ottoman city had four separate destroyed, for Greeks, the Hebrew for Muslims and clan dummy at power. After the founding of the Turkish Republic, all foreigners have left the region, and Kale has been almost entirely abandoned. `80 Years led renaissance of old houses - which are hotel restaurants, hotels and shops-GIUVAIER. Yyvli Minare (vaulted minaret)
This is the most important monument in Antalya, built of red brick incomparable type selgiucid in sec. XIII. Surroundings Antalya
Aspendos
Here are the most successful example of a Roman theater or even the ancient theater, anywhere in the world. Aspendos will certainly impress. Built in sec. II century AD and renovated the orders of Ataturk, the structure now serves as the perfect place for exhibition games and fight theatrical performances. Get the hill behind the theater to have the great sights of the audience. Also, you will see excavate remains of a city, the impressive buildings I apendect being romans an ancient basilica.
Located 49 km east of Antalya, in addition freeway E24 and 36 km west of Side. Hours: daily 8.30-17.30. Free entrance.
Duden Selalesi (Waterfalls Duden)
These waterfalls offers a spectacular Duden where river flows into the sea.
Located 10km from Antalya, on the way to Lara.
Kursunlu Selalesi (Waterfalls Kursunlu)
Impressive waterfalls, located 18 km north of Antalya, on the road to Isparta. Perge
There are many ruins of the town's Greek / Roman plain on splay of Pamphlya. Not having any defense, the city was immediately handed over to Alexander the Great, when he moved toward Persia. Since 1946, Perge was strong excavator main monuments here is theater, decorated with beautiful carved reliefs, stadium, the best preserved in Turkey after Afrodisias, with seats for 12,000 spectators and circular towers Greek to wear, made of goldplated stone, leading to the street where the colonnade principala cu still can be seen in the pavement tracks. Street it was ploughing water which flows through the center channel - a sort of early system of air conditioning for shops in the area. Today, you can admire what was left of their beautiful floors with mosaics.
Situated 18 km east of Antalya, 2 km north of the main coastal highway E24.
Hours: daily 8.30-17.30. Entry pay. Termessos
A visit to Termessos, known as Eagle Nest, is one of the most delightful excursions in Turkey. Exploration of the last half a day and will certainly enjoy, even if it will inspire ruins. Built in sec. IV century BC, people of a ferocity and legendary independence, this city is high in the mountains dressed in high pin and was turned into a national park. Exploration site involves a series of climbs and more walking, so it is important to wear comfortable shoes. The land is grooved entirely a network of roads, signs and panels will help you target. Important elements of the city, you should not miss them, are the gym, theater (whose location is even more impressive than that of Pergamum) and the necropolis (cemetery).
Located 34 km northwest of Antalya, off the road Korkuteli. Reached only by car or taxi. Hours: daily 8.30-18.30. Entry pay.
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