Aegean Coast

  • Ephesus

    Ephesus is the best-preserved Greco-Roman city in the eastern Mediterranean and the most visited archaeological site in Turkey. At its peak in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD it had a population of 250,000 — the second-largest city in the Roman Empire after Rome. The Library of Celsus, the Great Theatre, the colonnaded main street,…

  • Izmir

    Izmir is Turkey’s third-largest city and its most European in character — a liberal, coastal, Mediterranean city with a strong café culture, a vibrant waterfront, and a self-confidence born of being different from Istanbul. Most tourists pass through on the way to Ephesus or Cesme without stopping for more than a day. This is a…

  • Marmaris

    Marmaris sits at the point where a pine-forested peninsula meets a vast natural harbour — one of the largest in the Mediterranean — surrounded by water on three sides. The British discovered it in the 1970s, the charter yacht industry made it the premier Blue Cruise terminus, and today Marmaris is one of the busiest…

  • Bodrum

    What Makes Bodrum Different Bodrum occupies the tip of a peninsula that juts into the Aegean between two bays, with a Crusader castle sitting at the point between them. It was the birthplace of Herodotus (the world’s first historian) and home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus)….

  • Antalya

    What Antalya Actually Is Antalya is Turkey’s fourth-largest city and the gateway to the Turkish Riviera, a 600km stretch of Mediterranean coastline that draws more than 15 million tourists per year. The numbers are large but they obscure something important: most visitors stay in all-inclusive resort complexes east and west of the city and never…

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