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ABOUT
ALANYA
Alanya
is located on the Turkish Mediterranean coast between the stunning Taurus
Mountains and the blue crystal clear Mediterranean. With long sandy well kept
beaches, amazing nightlife, a huge variety of restaurants, a fascinating
historical and cultural heritage to be explored and its multicultural lifestyle,
Alanya is now one of Turkey’s biggest and most popular holiday resorts with
something to suit all ages!!
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As well as modern hotels, the
huge selection of restaurants offer a wide range of cuisines from Turkish to
International with the local speciality being fish, fresh from the sea. There
are cafes and bars with the resorts lively nightlife being centered around the
harbour area where many of the bars are open until 3 or 4 in the morning!
Plenty of
shops, supermarkets and a large weekly Friday market give you the chance to
observe local life and haggle for bargains.
Alanya is a town of 2 bays
divided by a rocky promontory which is crowned by a mighty Ottoman castle, and
just below lies the delightful harbour guarded by the 13th Century Red Tower.
The town has grown rapidly over the last 15 years with development now
stretching over 20km along the coast and has more than 90,000 residents
including 9,000 foreign residents,who are attracted by the hot summers , mild
winters and low cost of living. The resort is particularly popular with
Scandinavian,Dutch , German and British tourists.
Alanya enjoys a typical tropical
Mediteranean climate in which the sun shines for more than 300 days a year and
the temperature never drops below 10C in winter with average summer temperatures
around 28C. The average temperature for the year is 19C.
In the early
years Alanya was a small fishing town discovered by pirates where the
inhabitants existed mainly by farming and trading. According to legend, Roman
Emperor Mark Anthony and Queen Cleopatra of Egypt married here in 32 B.C and
Mark Anthony gave the town to his wife as a wedding present!
Alanya has been called different
names throughout its history: Korakesion (Land of the Rook) ; Kolonoros (Beautiful
Mountain); Alaiye (City of Alaaddin the founder), and Alanya (where the sun
shines 300 days) as its known today.
The town
didn’t really start to grow until the arrival of Alaaddin Keykubat who, after
five years of trying, finally conquered the town in 1226. He completed the final
construction of Alanya Castle, with its 150 watch towers, a dockyard, hundreds
of cisterns as part of the water supply, Turkish baths and mosques .The name of
Alanya did not appear until 1934 when Turkey’s President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk,
visited the town. He did not like the name Alaiye and changed it to Alanya.
Today, Alanya
has grown from strength to strength and developed into one of the most popular
travel destinations in Turkey with plenty to do for all age groups!!
A property in Alanya offers
clients the opportunity to invest in a prestigious lifestyle, where quality of
life is excellent and capital appreciation has been very strong for the last 3
years. Alanya is ideal for a family holiday home or investment and has good
rental opportunity.
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Beaches
The coast of
Alanya is famous for its natural wide beaches, several of which have been
awarded a Blue Flag. The beaches here spread over 60 kilometresand offer a wide
range of watersports including scuba diving if you fancy discovering the
underwater world of Alanya.
There are two
main beaches in the city naturally separated into an eastern and western part by
the 250 metre high rock promontory.The western beach of Alanya is named after
Queen Cleopatra of Egypt and the eastern beach is simply known as the Eastern
beach .
Cleopatra beach
is said to be Alanya’s best and legend has it that Cleopatra bathed at the foot
of the cliff everyday.The sand is fine and there are not many rocks or stones,
but the water does deepen more quickly than that at the eastern beach. The 3.5
km beach is also known as Damlatas beach because of the cave on the western side
of the peninsula discovered in 1948.
Eastern beach
starts at the Alanya peninsula and continues for about 40km east towards the
provincial town of Gazipasa.The water doesn’t deepen so quickly here, making it
more child friendly than Cleopatra beach.
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Incekum beach
is often talked about as one of the best beaches on the south coast.It has fine
sand and the crystal clear water deepens very slowly making it especially
recommended for families with small children.
Ulas
beach is one of the best in the area,situated
not far from Ulas Park. Tables, chairs, barbeque grills and public toilets are
provided here and the area is perfect for a picnic while relaxing, swimming or
just enjoying life. This beach is often frequented by the locals.
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Nightlife
Evenings can be spent
shopping till you drop, sampling the local cuisine at one of the many
restaurants or dancing the night away at one of the disco bars or nightclubs,
most of them situated in the harbour area, where many stay open until 3-4am in
the morning.
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Alanya
is also a centre of art and culture activities and at any time, an event may be
going on which you can enjoy free of charge. There may be a film festival taking
place at the Alanya Culture Centre, a harp recital at the Red Tower, an
exhibition of paintings at the Alanya Fortress or an orchestral performance by
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Dimcay River
Dimcay is 15km inland and is an area of
stunning scenery with picnic tables set under the old plane trees where
guests sit with their feet in the water. In some restaurants, authentic
tables with cushions are actually set on rafts on the river. The trout here
is excellent and cooked fresh from the river.
The area is also
popular for mountain biking and trekking.
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Damlatas Caves
The fascinating
Damlatas Caves is the best place to see the area
misshapen rock formations
as well as stalactite and stalagmites formed
15 thousand years ago. The
caves are famous as the air has been found
to be beneficial for asmathics
and for those with other chest complaints.
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Boat trips
Take a boat trip from the harbour to visit the
three sea grottos;Fosforlu Magara with its
phosphorescent rocks,the Kizlar Magarasi where pirates
imprisoned their female captives and the Asiklar Magarasi (Lovers Cave).
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Water Park
Have
an exciting day out visiting the nearby waterpark,
Water Planet, where all
the family can have crazy fun trying
one of the 27 water slides and rafting
on the 350m river
with artificial waves. If you are a bit of a dare devil
you
can try the bungee jumping or try your hand at the
6 hole
mini golf.
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Alanya Castle, Red
Tower and Museum
For the culture vultures, Alanya has the
historic interest of the fortress and citadel walls. The fortress, which
sits high above Alanya, has walls stretching 6500 metres with 93 towers and
140 towers! The Inner Fortress at the highest point of the peninsula and the
Middle Fortress are both museums. Adam Atacađý Tower is an important spot on a tour of the iner castle – prisoners here in Roman Times were given 3 stones and asked to take a gamble. Those who managed to throw a Stone into
the sea were released whereas those who could not, were thrown into the sea
by catapult! The name Adam Atacađý (Man Thrower) dates from this time.In
the Fortress, there are five mosques and Romad period churches that are also
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Heading down from the
Fortress, is the Red Tower, the Dockyard and the Gun House. The Red Tower,
which was built primarily to defend the towns shipyard dates back to 1225
and is 33 metres high with 85 steps to the top. The Dockyard was built in
1228 and next to this is the Gun Tower which was used to make cannons,
construct battleships and to defend the dock and shipyard.
The museums
throughout Alanya hold many monuments of the Bronze Age, Hellenistic and
Roman period.
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Banana Plantation and Citrus Orchards
For something different why not visit one of
the many banana plantations and sample the delicious sweet tasting Turkish
dwarf bananas or pick oranges in the citrus orchards.
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Why Alanya?
• Alanya has got it all :beautiful beaches,a clear blue Mediterranean sea,sunshine,mountains,history,excellent
night life,good choice of restaurants,plenty of shops and lots of leisure
facilities.What more could you want???!!!!
• Alanya enjoys a Mediterranean climate with hot summers and mild winters, in
which the sun shines for more than 300 days a year .
• Both the resort and the airport are open all year round and there is still
plenty to do in the winter months.
• Alanya is only 1 hour and 45 minutes from Antalya airport.
• Alanya is the entertainment centre of the Turquoise coast
• Alanya is surprisingly clean and tidy
• Property is still cheap and a great investment as capital appreciation has
been very strong over the last 3 years.There is good rental potential as there
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