Mediterranean

  • Alanya

    Alanya occupies one of the most dramatic settings on the Turkish coast: a medieval fortress on a 250m rocky promontory jutting into the Mediterranean, with beaches stretching 12km on either side. The Seljuk Turks built the castle and harbour towers here in the 13th century and the combination of red stone fortifications, turquoise water, and…

  • 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)….

  • Fethiye

    Why Fethiye Belongs on Your Turkey Itinerary Fethiye sits at the point where the Aegean and Mediterranean meet, in a bay so sheltered and so strikingly blue that the Turkish government designated the entire coastline a Special Environmental Protection Area. The bay is backed by the Taurus Mountains, fronted by twelve islands, and edged with…

  • 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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