Antalya: old town and turquoise coasts

The Kaleiçi district, the old city enclosed within walls of Roman and Seljuk epochs, preserves wooden Ottoman houses now transformed into boutique hotels around cobblestone alleys that descend to the port.

The Yivli Minare tower, a fluted brick minaret built in the twelfth century by the Seljuks of Rum, remains the symbol of the city visible from much of the city center.

The Düden Falls, a few kilometers from the center, plunge from a cliff directly into the Mediterranean Sea, visible also from the sea for those who reach them by boat.

The Antalya Archaeological Museum displays Roman sarcophagi, statues of the gods from ancient Perge, and one of the richest collections of Bronze Age artifacts in southern Anatolia.

Between the Seljuk minaret of Yivli and the Roman sarcophagi in the museum pass over a thousand years of different dominations, all still legible in the same historic center.

The Düden Waterfalls, which plunge into the sea without mediation, remain perhaps the only thing in Antalya that never needed to be conquered by anyone.