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City guide · Türkiye
Antalya is a Mediterranean port with the Taurus Mountains standing directly behind it, and the modern city was built straight over the ancient one — so the old fabric survives in one walled quarter rather than in fragments scattered across town. Kaleiçi is that quarter: cobbled lanes of Ottoman houses dropping down to a harbour that dates to the Roman period, with Cumhuriyet Square at its landward edge. The urban population is 1,335,002 and the province around it holds 2,722,103. Scale explains the rest of what a visitor meets — 13.4 million foreign visitors arrived by air in 2022, most of them passing through on the way to the coast either side of the city.
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Aspendos is a ruined Pamphylian and Roman city standing on two low hills above the Eurymedon, the river now called the Köprüçay, in Belkıs Mahallesi in the Serik district of Antalya province.
Termessos is a Pisidian city on a natural platform about a thousand metres up the south-western flank of Güllük Dağı, the ancient Mount Solymos, in the Taurus range north-west of Antalya.
Olympos is a ruined Lycian and Roman city lying along both banks of the Ulupinar stream where the valley meets the sea, in the Yazir neighbourhood of Kumluca district, Antalya.
Xanthos was the capital of ancient Lycia, and what survives of it stands on two hills above the plain of the Eşen Çayı, the river the Greeks called the Xanthos, in the village of Kınık in Antalya province.
Patara is the excavated remains of the harbour city that served as the capital of the Lycian League, spread across a sandy plain behind the beach at Gelemiş, in the Kaş district of Antalya province.
Hadrian's Gate is a Roman triumphal arch standing at the eastern edge of Kaleiçi, Antalya's walled old town. Turkish calls it Üçkapılar, "three gates", after the three arched openings that carry its name.
Set your days, your pace and the hours you actually want to be out. The planner works around closing days and travel time, and leaves room to eat.
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