Archive for Kasım, 2008
OLIMPOS [ Olympos ]
On walking 45 kilometers from Antalya towards the west, you get to Olimpos, which is 50 meters high above sea-level, and which was one of the important cities of the Lykia Kingdom.
You can go by bus from Antalya. It’s about 1 hour. One can go to “Yanartas” from “Cirali” which is 7 kilometers far from [...]
MYRA (Demre)
This district is specially important as being the last meeting-place of St. Paul with the other apostles on the way to Rome. At the same time the grave, including the bones of St. Nicholas who has been personified as “Santa Claus” in the Christian World is in the Church which stands there.
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Late period of City ( city Gates & foreground )
These gates are the main portals into the city. They were built with colossal huge stones. A retaining wall was added to it in the middle, to prevent its collapse in ruins.
As seen above, from the outside, it consisted of two cylindrical towers, and is part of a majestic sight of Perge. The inner eye [...]
Carain (karain ) Cave
It presumption that a prehistoric man had begun to live in this cave about 50,000 years ago, and it was a very old unit residential district. Excavations have revealed some stone axes, teeth of Neanderthals and the teeth of the cave-bear and lion from the Stone Age (Paleolithic). And it was further uncovered some relics [...]
HOW CAN YOU GET TO ANTALYA?
You can go by air, by sea or overland to this Turkish Riviera. A address from Istanbul or Izmir will yield you there in 3 or 4 days, affecting at Kusadasi (Birds Island), Bodrum (Halicarnassus), Marmaris (Physcus), Fethiye (Telmessus), and Kas. Everyday you can acquisition a even from Istanbul to Antalya and carnality versa.
Also you [...]
Geographical Position of ANTALYA
It covers an breadth of 20.591 aboveboard kilometers, about 2.6 % of the absolute Turkish land. Two acreage projections in the east and west from two plateaus alleged “Tasel” and “Teke” as able-bodied as the bay of Antalya. Most of the breadth is mountainous. The acreage about fit for agronomics and for agronomics is 78 [...]
Climate
It has a Mediterranean climate, i.e. balmy and backing in winter, hot and dry in summer. Boilerplate anniversary condensate canicule are 75. 66 % of this condensate is in winter, 16 % in autumn, 16 % in bounce and 2 % in summer. A almanac best temperature is 44º Centigrade, the everyman is -7º… admitting [...]
Beldibi Cave
It was a additional important address centermost of the aged era, and some debris of the Middle Stone Age (Mezolithic) were begin in blasting in this cavern .The charcoal of accustomed domiciliary objects, cups, pots and of some asperous figurines of goats and animals, are absolutely stunning. Beldibi Cavern is an beneath bedrock apartment amid [...]
ASPENDOS THEATRE
This awe-inspiring masterpiece of the City has a accommodation for 20,000 assemblage and its date is just like a many-storied apartment. The doors in the walls are outlets for the actors in adjustment that they ability change their attires. There acclimated to be tiers on the appropriate as balconies and on the larboard too. The [...]
ASPENDOS [Belkis]
According to the Greek Myth the City was complete over the Acropolis that was condonable adjoin every advance by the Akkadians on their axis aback from the Trojan War in the 10th Century B.C. The name of Aspendos calls in apperception its theatre. This awe-inspiring masterpiece was congenital in honour of the Emperor’s ancestors and [...]