Places to visit in Antalya
19 places from Antalya province are on the map: Tahtalı & Bey Mountains, Kaleiçi & the Cliffs, Düden Waterfall & Lara, Kaş & Meis, Kekova & Simena, Olympos & Çıralı, and 13 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Tahtalı & Bey Mountains
In the ancient world, Olympos was a name given to many mountains, much as so many cities today have a district called “Tepebaşı”, or “Hilltop”. In Anatolia alone there were at least two…
See on the map →Kaleiçi & the Cliffs
Legend has it that one day King Attalus II of Pergamon summoned his men and gave them a single command: “Find me paradise on earth.” It is said that after months of roaming from land to…
See on the map →Düden Waterfall & Lara
“Once again you overflow, my wild heart, / Will you rush and roar like the waters?” asks Yunus Emre. But can a river, too, overflow like a heart, rush and roar, and then suddenly vanish?…
See on the map →Kaş & Meis
Gabriele Salvatores’ Oscar-winning film ‘Mediterraneo’ ends with a dedication: “To all those who are running away.” In the film, a handful of Italian soldiers land on a small Greek island…
See on the map →Kekova & Simena
On the shore of Kaleköy there is a Lycian sarcophagus whose feet are washed by the waves every day. Half in the sea, half on land; neither wholly in this world nor in the next… So how does…
See on the map →Olympos & Çıralı
In the Iliad, Homer describes the Chimaera as a creature born not of men but of gods: a lion in front, a serpent behind, a goat in between, breathing out a terrible fire… If such a monster…
See on the map →Kemer & Phaselis
What might a city’s land be worth? Gold, silver, a king’s seal… Legend has it that Phaselis went for a few salted fish! The story goes that Lakios, leader of the colonists from Rhodes…
See on the map →Side & Manavgat
Can a city’s name be a fruit? Side’s can. In one of the ancient languages of Anatolia, “side” means pomegranate; that is why the city’s coins bore a pomegranate… So who managed to pack so…
See on the map →Aspendos
Legend has it that the king of Aspendos promised his daughter to whoever gave the city its most beautiful work. Two master builders competed: one built the arches carrying water from the…
See on the map →Perge
Galileo said: “Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze… It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are…
See on the map →Termessos
In the Iliad, describing the hero Bellerophon’s battle with the Solymi, Homer says it was the fiercest fight he ever fought. The Solymi were a people of the mountains; and for centuries the…
See on the map →Saklıkent & Bakırlıtepe
Kant wrote: “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within…
See on the map →Alanya Castle
Do you need a war to take a castle, or a wedding? The story goes that when the Seljuk Sultan Alâeddin Keykubad arrived before this giant rock jutting into the sea in 1221, Kir Vart, lord of…
See on the map →Köprülü Canyon
How long can a bridge serve? Today engineers answer with calculations and century-long lifespans. Yet deep in the Taurus there is a bridge that has done its job without fail for nearly two…
See on the map →Demre & Myra
That famous poem attributed to Clement Clarke Moore begins, “’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house / Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…” and tells of a…
See on the map →Kalkan & Kaputaş
Imagine rounding a bend on the coast road when, suddenly, far below, a turquoise beach appears between two walls of rock… Cars slow down, passengers fall silent, everyone looks at the same…
See on the map →Patara
In ‘The Spirit of the Laws’, Montesquieu writes: “Were I to give a model of an excellent confederate republic, I should pitch upon that of Lycia.” Years later, as the American Constitution…
See on the map →Xanthos & Letoon
Herodotus tells what the Xanthians did when the army of the Persian commander Harpagus entered the plain of Xanthos: few as they were, they marched out and fought; when they were beaten…
See on the map →Kızlarsivrisi
Asked why he wanted to climb Everest, George Mallory gave the shortest and most famous answer in the history of mountaineering: “Because it’s there.” If there were a summit over three…
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