Antalya
Antalya is an attractive city with its shaded palm-lined boulevards, its marina and its picturesque old quarter, called Kaleiçi, with narrow and sinuous streets and the old wooden houses.
Attalos II, king of Pergame, who gave it the name of Atteleia, founded Antalya in the 2nd century BC. Antalya was then settled by Roman, Byzantine and Seldjuk civilisations before finally being occupied by the Ottomans. The province of Antalya corresponds to the lands of ancient Pamphylia to the east and Lycia to the west and features many ancient cities such as Xanthos, Tlos, Çiralı and Phaselisş the ruins of these ancient cities still exist and can be visited. Dominated by the Tahtalı mountain, the three ports of Phaselis testify to its role of historical centre of commerce. You can discover the theatre, the Hadrian gate, the acropolis and many ruins of aqueducts, agoras and baths, which are surrounded by a beautiful luxuriant vegetation.
