Kuşadası & Güvercinada

Who gives a city its name? A king, a god, or the birds that land on its shore and take off again? Kuşadası’s answer, as its name suggests, is rather modest… Legend has it that the town took its name, “Bird Island”, from the islet just off its shore, which from a distance resembles a bird’s head, or from the flocks of birds that crowd onto this small piece of land. Whichever it is, entrusting a city’s fate to a bird can’t be such a bad idea.