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ABOUT ANTALYA
 Legendary
Anatolia, or Asia Minor is one of the
countries surrounding the Miditerranean Sea
which was eventually the birth-place of a
bold and unsurpassed civilization for
centuries. This peninsula of the Turkish
Republic has the coastline on the
Mediterranean Sea, almost half of which is
the border of Antalya City. The wonders
still stand there today, even in ruins, in
its power to amaze - though the excellency
of iyd monuments, its spectacular tombs and,
above all, the awesome span of time through
which its greatness has survived. Its is
God's work that country was rich in art and
accomplishment while Europe was in its Stone
age, and also to its life it was so
gratifying that man asked better nothing but
eternity than to go living in a close
replica of this fruitful earth he loved.
They in fact engineered intricate irrgation
systems, developed mathematics, mined useful
and precious ores, traded with lands over
sea, perfected the techniques of
administration and government.
Perhaps you have heard about the
enchantments of this miracle land though
some epochs told by the visitors of Antalya.
You will see that it is really no
exaggeration in telling and applauding this
truth wherever you enter into the City. On
both sides of the streets date trees soar up
into the sky, and in
the middle of the streets water flows in
canals in a never-failing continuity and
serenity. Those are the first vivid
specialities that will welcome you.
It has a large and radiant Park embellished
with motley-kind of flowers and trees. Its
south is the sea, and the cliffs are often
rocky and sleep, and they form a ntural
border in the height of 50 or 60 meters in
the south of the City, and those cliffs
stretch along the shore 10 or 12 kilometres
long. Rivers and streams, the sources of
which are actually in the Taurus Mountains,
pour down in thunder over the cataracts on
its way into the sea along this coast.
Another wonder for the visitors who won't
really be albe to see any other similar to
this! The water comes down over the cliffs
in such a way that million of water-dews in
atoms look like a misty dust embracing the
gloomy sea.
'Lara, Karpuzkaldiran, Mermerli' Beaches
near the Park, and 'Adalar , Konyaalti'
Beaches in the east are some that can
provide good-bathing for the vacationers.
After 'Konyaalti Beach' towards the west. 'Arapsuyu
Beach , is another one which was turned to
be mocamps by the Antalya Tourism and
information Society.
 Whenever
the vacationer visits Denizli (Hierapolis).
Konya and Adana they are bound to call at
Antalya. Because those cities are so near to
Antalya. And also you will find priceless
treasures of the historical masterpieces as
well as the two sophistications mentioned
above such an incomparable treasure that you
will ask yourself in a moment and try to
give an answer to how even one huge stone,
in tons, of the facade of the theatre of
Perge had been hauled up 20 or 25 metres
high by the use of levers, ropes and
manpower only; and further why and for whom
the theatre in Side had been constructed so
large; and then today why no human beings
live except birds in Termossos which once
had a population of 150.000 and which
Alexander the Great hadn't been able to
conquer. |
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