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,
Konyaalti Beach is an enjoyable day trip. It's convenient, on a bus route and an enjoyable walk from the old city. We discovered it on a trip to the museum which happened to be closed that day. The beach is long, wide and covered with pebbles, which are quite small, rounded and quite comfortable to sit or lie on. We…
I enjoyed just walking a round and viewing the old town.
The shops were expensive.
It was very hot in the 2nd and 3rd week of August. If you have young children take a push chair.
I wouldn't make a special trip unless you enjoy this sort of thing so the free shuttle helped the decision especially with young children….
The Konyaalti Beach offers a long stretch of beach with access to the Mediterranean. It is clean and populated with a well resourced supply of lounges and umbrellas for rent at 5 TL per day.
quite a nice beach – small size pebbles, much better than in Kemer, where you have to be very brave to overcome large size stones without special shoes.
this is the old town in Antalya,its very lovely to walk in although the weather is hot,shops are every where but their prices are high please don't buy from there.
but its a very beautiful place to see and take photos especially the old harbor you can take great pictures for this place.
Beautiful part of Antalya, with lots to see, the streets are narrow so it has a lot of shade for walking, Hadrians Gate is a must along with the clock tower
Nothing spectacular compared to other historical sites in Turkey. Please that I have seen it but unfortunately no one there to give you a bit of a story about it.
it was long and clean beach, easiy find sunbeds and umbrella, kind of not fee, and peaople speaks english and you can eat good staff with cheap price.
Just another clock tower, ok if you are into them.
Very nice beach, but no sand the water is very clear and very relaxing place. I enjoyed it with my family very much. It is a public beach so you should get your towels.