With its history, sea, cultural assets and high quality tourism facilities, Antalya is known as the capital of Tutkish tourism. With Belek, Kemer, Side-Manavgat, Alanya, Lara-Kunda, and Kaş tourism centers, Antalya hosts more than 10 million foreign quests every year. Along with a cultural heritage deeply rooted in history,
Antalya’s coves and highlands of unique beauty, pristine beaches, comfortable hotels and marinas, colourful entertainment venues, and art-filled festivals all make it a tourist destination that offers endless possibilities to its guests.
These include the pleasure of sunbathing from sunrise to sunset; the natural thrill of outdoor sports in the grip of mother nature; the excitement of discovering national parks with their rich flora and fauna, ancient cities, museums and Kaleiçi; the mystery of the mountains and the peaceful Mediterranean coves drawing you away; the romance of watching an opera outdoors under the stars at night; sampling the unique delicacies of Turkish cuisine and enjoying the party scene. Meeting the hospitable people of Antalya is just another part of the pleasant holiday experience.
Hadrian’s Gate, built in the honor of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who visited Antalya in the year 130.
Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. It is Turkey’s biggest international sea resort, located on the Turkish Riviera.
A view of Antalya’s coastline.
In 2011 the city had a population of 964,886 and the metropolitan municipality 1,041,972. Antalya was the world’s fourth most visited city by number of international arrivals in 2011, with 10.5 million annual visitors. Most of these tourists were changing planes or moving between the airport and the cruise lines.
Scene around Kaleici. The old city center in Antalya
Antalya,
Kaleici has been, and continues to be, restored to a very high level and is full of very good restaurants, accommodation and interesting places like the 600 year old Hamam. Great for a stroll, a meal, a massage, a shop or a shoe shine.
It has wonderful lanes shops view of harbour boats bars restaurants easy walking little beach perfect
West of the old town this beach is easily accessible by tram from the old city.The sea temperature was beautifully refreshing and unusual with the sea temperature at the bottom of the water being warm and the top of the sea being refreshingly cold .This is from the underground mountain streams filtering g in under the pebbles that make up…
The Bazaar was great because of the location and the ambiance. There were a lot of interesting products, My only complaint is that some of the vendors were obnoxiously pushy but they were always willing to haggle.
I liked the little streets and motels and restaurants. Hated the ses smell in some streets. Chep motels there but no access to beach.
only the gate and a bit of the walls left but the gate is an impressive one and worth seeing. Too many people sitting around getting in photos so a bit of a shame that but anyway its a historic site worth seeing
beautiful scenery and full of history. good shopping. Narrow and stony streets and alleys which takes you to several hundred years of history.View is just mesmerizing. A must see place.
Designer fakes, shoes, shirts, jeans, watches etc. The usual banter from the owners trying to get you to enter thier shops/stalls and look around but it's all good natured. I bought a couple of pairs of jeans and a shirt. My jeans were whisked away and turned up free of charge whilst I waited. My finacee bought a couple of…
This is the place where one will get good restaurant and lot many food varieties. There is lot of shopping options available and its quite cheap. We ended up in Kaleici everyday!!
Very nice old historic harbour.
We didn't eat, but there are a variety of lovely looking restaurants. And of course lots of boats offering tours. As we were out of season we opted for a short boat trip, but it was really lovely.