Alanya is 65 km from Side and 131 km from Antalya. Amid the orange and lemon trees, before the Toros (Taurus), Alanya city important holiday, welcomes you. Many tourist facilities, stunning beaches, great parks, gardens, tea and delicious restaurants, Alanya is a very diverse shopping center. You’ll find leather clothing and accessories as well as the beautiful jewelry.
You will also appreciate the memories that are humorous characters painted on calabash.

This city has a pleasant recreational centers with all the charm of modern tourism.

In 1220, the city was the winter residence of the Sultan Aleaddin Keykubat (12th century Seljuk). The fortress is located on steep mountain chains, the well-preserved body of the fleet Seljuk and imposing Kizil Kule (The tower red) octagonal just this time.

A street, which winds through gardens stand where colorful houses, up to the fortress, which it is located at 260 meters high over the city. It is surrounded by double walls with its 150 laps. On the inside, you find the remains of the Seljuk city: a mosque, a caravanserai and a covered bazaar. Later after rocks, you see, the ruins of a tank and a Byzantine church. From the top, available to you a wonderful panoramic view. Also, if you want to admire a show while on vacation, come to participate folklore events which are held every year in August.

Some caves to visit at around Alanya

The cave Damlatas is interesting to visit because her two vaults superimposed. On the cave Damlatas, lies the park of Ataturk which crowns the city and beautifies the fortress. The park was established in a different style. North of the latter is the museum of Alanya exposing valuable archaeological objects. (Closed Mondays).

The other caves to visit are: the cave Kizlar manastari (monastery girls) where pirates beach alanya turkey, Ä°ncekum sequestering women slaves, the cave Asiklar (Lovers) and the Cave Fosforlu (phosphorus) phosphorescent rock grotto illuminated by spot colorful. These caves are accessible only by boat.

Beaches in Alanya: On the road Alanya – Avsallar (Ä°ncekum), 25 km from Alanya you will see many complex and holiday centers along the beaches and full of activities. Between Alanya and Gazipasa, have natural beaches await you.

Around the monument of the Republic (Cumhuriyet Anıtı) covers the largest square of the city and one of the most densely traveled to. Taksim was in the’30-years as a new symbol of the modern Republic created. In the 70s was the main Taksim Square demonstration of the city: Unforgettable is the rally on 1 May 1977, through provocations by the extreme right end of a bloody and took many casualties resulted. Today is Taksim with the opera, its hotels, airlines and banks peaceful flagship of the bustling, new Ä°stanbul. Around the Taksim Square are the stops for the “dolmuÅŸ” said Collective taxis, which can be the quickest and cheapest distant neighborhoods reached.

Ortaköy is Taksim seen from the first former fishing village on the Bosporus. It begins on the shore and extends to the hills above the strait. Ortaköy traditionally had always multicultural character. Two churches, a synagogue and a mosque are located in the waterfront area still close together. In the’80s discovered then young artists and intellectuals the charm Ortaköys here and opened studios and bookstores. The old houses were restored and converted into cafes and restaurants. On weekends, there are quarters in a lively and thriving cabaret market.
The landmark of the district is the delicate-looking baroque Ortaköy mosque with two slender minarets. It bears the signature of the Armenian Hofarchitekten Nikogos Balyan. The Sultan used in the 19th Century, with its stately boat from Dolmabahçe Palace on Friday prayer here überzusetzen.

Arnavutköy means “village of Albanians” and pointed out that this place was originally heard of Albanian immigrants has been built. Thirty years before a simple village on the Bosporus, belongs Arnavutköy today almost more to the center. Although a decade ago aufgeschüttete new multi Uferstraße some of its charm has been destroyed, it is still the place in Kayseri, where most of its original Ottoman wooden houses on narrow space preserved. Like some other Bosporusviertel has also benefited Arnavutköy that many artists, intellectuals, but also increasingly betuchte foreigners is the charm of the old buildings have discovered this and many houses before the expiration have been rescued. Since the earthquake, 1999, there was a veritable run on the old wooden houses, as has become evident that they are much safer than the new concrete structures.

Insights into the Christian-Jewish Ä°stanbul
Istanbul’s old districts of Balat and Fener on the Golden Horn in the Ottoman period were Christian and Jewish quarters. Starting from the seat of the head of the Orthodox churches worldwide, to the best preserved Byzantine mosaics are impressive evidence of the Christian culture of the former Constantinople to see. The five to six walk leads you through one of the most historically interesting areas of Istanbul.

The tour begins on the banks of Golden Horn at the Fener Vapur Ä°skelesi, the ferry terminal in Fener, from where ferries run hourly Eminönü. The history of the original Greek district is still alive. You go from investors – there is also a conspicuous police station – into quarters inside and turn left on Sadrazam Ali Pasha Caddesi. Here lies right behind high walls of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, where since 1601 the head of the entire Orthodox Church is alive. While enjoying the Orthodox “Pope” within the Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian Orthodox churches is not the same as the authority for the Roman Catholics, but all recognize the Patriarch of Constantinople as the spiritual leader of. Since 1602 the Patriarchate resides here. A comprehensive restoration in the 18th Century, the building now face awarded. A wide staircase leads to the big three wings gate, which is closed – since just 1821, when the then Patriarch Grigorios V. revolution of the Greeks in Hellas supported and therefore was hanged here.
Because of the complex are not publicly accessible, please contact a few steps back in the Yıldırım Caddesi and then left into Vodina Caddesi, the main street of Fener. The Greeks of the quarter belonged to the wealthy families of the city, the Balkans and controlled trade as a translator and diplomats were active. Turn from the left into the Vodina Fener Kireçhanesi Sokak, which up to Galatasaray leads Secondary School boys. The huge brick building towers like a fortress over Fener and was formerly the principal of the institute İstanbul Greeks. Still in operation, it has only a few pupils.
Contact your school behind the right circle and the whole complex past the Mesnevihane Foundation in the courtyard of a small mosque. On the other side of the gymnasium, where it already goes back down, it happens the first inconspicuous Greek girls high school and then left hand at the ancient Byzantine church of Saint Mary of the Mongols over, since the times of Constantinople survived as a church has.
A few more steps you take to the Cimen Sokak, the downhill back to the Vodina leads. Turn right: On the left side you see unfortunately very rundown, former Greek magnificent mansions. Once left a lane open down to the shore, go to the shore road and meet here on a restored Byzantine building, which formerly belonged to the wall and into today at the initiative of a feminist group in Turkey, one woman library is housed. Only 200 meters further along the shore road, the iron-St Stephen’s Church, whose components 1871 in Vienna and poured over the Danube and the Black Sea to Istanbul were shipped. According to legend, the Sultan of the construction of the church under the condition have allowed that he had only one month. In truth he was a feared emergence of nationalism among the Bulgarians.
Please contact after the church turn left and now come slowly to the Balat into former Jewish quarter. The second parallel to the shore road is again the Vodina Caddesi. Follow her to Ayan Sokak, where you turn right. In this street you will meet successively on an ancient hamam, to Mehmet the Conqueror go back to a beautiful mosque Sinan, the Feruh Kethüda Camii, and directly beside one of the oldest Armenian churches in the city, the Surp-Hiresdagabad Church, originally a Byzantine construction.
Balat had in the late 15th Century, the Jews expelled from Spain established – in some houses on the bay is still the David Stern to recognize. Many of them are in the 50 years emigrated to Israel, others live scattered in the city. In Balat, there are hardly any Jewish families.

Left hand you over to the Dürriye Sokak Gevgili Sokak, where the oldest synagogue is Istanbul. Then it’s back to the Kürkçü ÇeÅŸme Sokak, the shopping street of the district, the hill hinaufführt. At halfway it goes right into the Pastırmacı Sokak, as a steep staircase leads up to the Pasha Hamamı Sokak ends. You see right on the open field Molla Askı Camii overlooking the Golden Horn and the surrounding district. Go about 1 km left to right the Kariye Camii Sokak Türbe turn. This street leads to a further swing to the left directly to the Chora Church, where the most beautiful Byzantine mosaics Istanbul to visit.
From the Chora Church is the Kariye Caddesi up to 1600 years old city wall. Here is a poor district, where some caution. A few hundred meters further along the right wall rises as part of the fortification of Tekfur Sarayı, the best-preserved parts of the former Byzantine Emperor’s palace. Under the Ottomans the plant served first as stabling for elephants and giraffes, and later as a secret pleasure house. Last were the sultans a new edition of the famous Ä°znik tiles burn.
On the pulse of the city
In BeyoÄŸlu, along Ä°stiklal Avenue, the pulse of today’s Istanbul. Once by the Genoese founded at the beginning of the 20th Century, nor the European district, meets here today youth of the city. The three-to four-hour walk begins at the Galata Tower.

The tower was built in 1348 has the top floor on a rotating outdoor gear, from which you have a wonderful view over the Golden Horn and the largest part of the old city. Follow the Tower Galip Dede from the Caddesi the hill. About halfway to İstiklal Avenue is the right Teutonia, a gray brick building, formerly the point of the German community in Istanbul and was still venue of the Goethe-Institut is. On the ground floor houses a gallery. A little further up the street, shortly before the Tünel Square, the bookseller Librairie de Pera, which is still rare to find old books. Directly opposite is the inconspicuous entrance to the Galata Mevlevihanesi, the dervish monastery of Galata. The monastery is now a museum, the old musical instruments and writings houses. The garden is a nice small cemetery.
Turn right, then you reach after a few steps to Tünel, the upper output of the underground railway, which starts later in Karaköy. The metro was built in 1875 is one of the oldest, but also shortest in the world. Before receiving end of the tram Tünel-Taksim, the look of the 19th Century as a tourist attraction by İstiklal bimmelt. Just opposite the entrance to the underground railway opens a passage in which one of the most beautiful Beyoğlu cafes, the K & V (daily from 9-22 clock opens € €), is located. From the cafe table, look in the windows of ARTrium, a gallery, which also carries beautiful antiques.

Through the passage it goes straight to Asmalı Mescit Sokak. On a few hundred meters short track you’ll find two more well-stocked antique Eren books and Otto Mania, but also some unusual cafes and small galleries. A little further left hand is in the Åžehbender Sokak the Babylon, one of the best addresses for pop, rock, jazz and other concerts, but also for off-theater scene and other events. Shortly after the Åžehbender Sokak passing the legendary artists and intellectuals pub Refik (Monday-Saturday from 21-1 opened clock) and then go back on the Asmalı Mescit left down the hill. Apply at the end of the alley to the right, then you stand in front of the once famous hotel district, the Pera Palas. The House has already glittering times and famous guests, but is still worth a visit.
From the Pera Palas is on the right MeÅŸrutiyet Caddesi continue on a large square along at the Italian Cultural Odakule gone up, an office tower, where a pedestrian passage to Ä°stiklal Avenue, the main artery BeyoÄŸlus arrived, one of the busiest centers in the city at all. Those who meet in Istanbul, will meet in one of the pubs and cafes in the side streets of Ä°stiklal who wants to go to the cinema, looks first of the films along Ä°stiklal, even discos and music are mostly here. The section before Odakule belongs to the quieter the streets. Go left, so you can see on the right side slightly behind the largest Catholic church Istanbul, the St. Anthony’s Church.
A little further opens the road to a small square in front of a huge wrought-iron gate. This is the Galatasaray Lisesi, the traditional French-Turkish elite high school. Before the gate gathered in the 90s every Saturday from the mothers disappeared – Kurds mostly victims of the war – too silent protest. Compared with the large gate is the entrance to Cicek Pasajı. This beautiful Art Nouveau Passage is filled with crowded restaurants, where every night it is highly ago. According to the passage, enters one at the other end of the Galantasarayalık Pazarı, the most beautiful fish, vegetable and fruit market in the city. The market is a feast for the eyes and worth a stroll, even if you do not want to buy. At the very beginning of the market is hidden on the right side, behind a large iron without any labeling (if necessary in a retail demand), UEC Horan, one of the most beautiful Armenian churches of Istanbul. Some branches also further steps to right a small alley with simple but good fish from restaurants. These pubs alley named Nevizade Sokak is the best place in BeyoÄŸlu, if for relatively little money good “MEZE”, ie the typical Ä°stanbul appetizers, and an acceptable fish under the open sky wants to eat.
At the end of the alley pubs it right back to Ä°stiklal Avenue. Then turn left and you’re in the middle of the hurly-burly of shopping and entertainment. From here until the Taksim Square ranks at the cinema pub, punctuated by chic boutiques and old shopping malls such as the Atlas Passage, where it pays to take a look hineinzuwerfen. Shortly before the Taksim Square you will see the building left of the French consulate, the right has a shield bearing the inscription Haci Baba the way to a rewarding lunch with traditional kitchen, where on the terrace of this good Turkish restaurant Walk to the end.

At first glance, it is the most impressive mosque in the city. About three stages domes rising into the sky, and no other Muslim house of God except the holy mosque in Mecca has six minarets. To atone for this sacrilege, in Mecca had another minaret built. The so-called Blue Mosque was a pupil of the master Sinan at the beginning of the 17th Century built and tore a deep hole in the Treasury. According to the World has, however, the effort worthwhile. Already the forecourts of the mosque, directly opposite the Hagia Sophia was built to impress by its size. The interior is dominated by the blue tiles, red carpet and giant chandeliers that hang from the dome. For some of the 260 windows – many of them are colorfully glazed – look at the Marmara Sea, or into a mosque pretty garden. With the Blue Mosque, the Ottoman religious architecture, but its peak already exceeded. In the following 300 years, there was no more builders, who could compare with Sinan.

The Blue Mosque is one for visitors to Ä°stanbul-duty program, and also to the right. That is precisely why it is but also all sorts of leaders, traders and smugglers under siege and has almost the character of a mosque with a practicing community lost. Yet here on important holidays such as the birth of the Prophet or the first great revelation Koranrezitationen instead. In summer nights, there is an impressive light show.
Tourists enter the mosque by a separate entrance, non women need

The Süleymaniye competes in Ä°stanbul with the Blue Mosque for the title of the largest, most beautiful and loftiest mosque in the city. Although the “Blue” Sultanahmet Mosque bigger and even well known, but among connoisseurs, the Süleymaniye as the prominent church in the city. They dominated from Topkapı of view, behind the Grand Bazaar on the Golden Horn. If one of Galata Tower from the old town looks, she is still the dominant figure in the silhouette of the city. It was the most famous architects of the Ottoman Empire, Koca Mimar Sinan, in honor of the famous Sultan, Suleyman the Magnificent between 1550 to 1557 was built.

The interior of the mosque works mainly through its overwhelming height. Indeed, Sinan with the Süleymaniye – perhaps only by his Selimiye Mosque in Edirne surpassed – a masterpiece of architecture dome delivered. The courtyard of the mosque is surrounded by magnificent arcades, whose columns from the Byzantine former Kaiserloge should come at the Hippodrome. Right next to the main building of the mosque contains the tombs of Süleyman and his wife Haseki main Hürrem, in the Western European literature under the name Roxelane is known. She was one of the most remarkable women of the Ottoman dynasty, and had great influence on the Sultan and the state stores.
To the Golden Horn side of the mosque close as other parts of the complex arms kitchen, the university and the caravanserai to. In the former arms kitchen is now a national restaurant housed, the sight is wonderful, eating less. This is in a beautiful garden nearby tea garden (open daily from 10-18 clock Open), you are not to be missed.

On the Golden Horn between Fener and Balat 1892, this church was built directly on the waterfront road. In the vernacular it is called the “Iron Church”, because it completely – including the columns and galleries on the inside – from cast iron was created after the Sultan of the building allegedly only on condition has allowed that he completed in one month is made. Indeed, the Church in parts of 1871 in Vienna poured by ship to Istanbul brought here and assembled on shore. Only the iconostasis is made of wood and comes from Russia.
The church stands out not only by her unusual material into the eye, but is also a symbol of the independence struggle of the Bulgarian municipality of the Greek Orthodox Church. Daily from 9-16 clock opens.

Like a toad with a high vaulted back and thick-legged squats the Hagia Sophia, the Church of Holy Wisdom, “on the old city of Kayseri. With its shimmering reddish brick and later in Ottoman times grown four minarets heard the good 1400 years old building is still the most influential apparitions of the silhouette of Ä°stanbul and is today a landmark of the city.

The antiquity of Christendom’s largest church, from the outside a bit crass acts, offers visitors once they enter the nave, a completely different picture: Instead of massive and stocky, appears in the mighty dome light to float highs, as the earthly mirror of the sky. A wreath of 40 windows in the bottom of the dome, the sunlight so skillfully into the interior of the large building that the impression of weightlessness will be further strengthened. This even after 1400 years, yet extremely impressive effect was the architect of Anthemios Tralles and Isidoros of Miletus achieved, that they are the main dome by further abstützten hemispheres and the mighty pillars, the weight of the dome field, in the aisles exiled. This has created a huge free funds ship. This architecture for the then revolutionary approach was later also a model of the mosques of Istanbul and the Hagia Sophia opposite the Blue Mosque.
Contracting for the construction of the Hagia Sophia was the Emperor Justinian, the church after a sensational short construction period of only 5 years and 10 months on 27 December inaugurated 537. The static experiment of 31 m in diameter big dome, the apex 49 m above the ground floated, but soon came to its limits. Several minor earthquakes caused the dome cracks and got 21 years after its completion, collapsed in May 558. Since both architects were already dead, instructed the 76-year-old nephew Justinian the Isidoros’, Isidoros younger, with the reconstruction of the dome. These were the outer pillars reinforces what to outwardly urged the impression, and the dome again to 7 m respectively. This form of the dome, 56 meters high and only from the outside pillars further supported, is preserved. No other Byzantine or Ottoman dome ever again reached such heights.

The current facilities inside the Hagia Sophia, 1935 at the museum explains, is determined by the 500 years in which they served as a mosque. Three days after the conquest of Constantinople in the year 1453 was the imperial church to the mosque of Sultan said. In the apse of the church is the Mihrab, pointing to Mecca the prayer niche. The right of this is the minibar, the pulpit of the imam. Most notable are the 7.5 m in diameter large wooden signs at the height of the galleries, calligraphy as the eight most sacred name of Islam bear. Upon closer inspection, however, you will have many more works of art from the Byzantine era recognize, mainly remnants of the famous mosaics. The first of them are already in the vestibules to the main building, the best known is a mosaic from the 10th Century directly over the so-called Kaisertor. It shows the enthroned Christ. Other mosaics are located in the apse and on the walls of the galleries, which, incidentally, both Byzantine and Ottoman period in which women were banned. The impressive mosaic motif is a devotional image, a Deesis that Jesus with Mary and John the Baptist shows.
In the Garden of Hagia Sophia are three mausoleums, in which the sultans Mehmet III., Selim II and Murat III. their final resting place is found. Moreover, around the Hagia Sophia in the’80s remains of the foundations of the predecessor church from the 5th Century have been uncovered. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 9 to 16 clock, the gallery is 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and clock 13 to 15 clock open, admission costs about 12 euros.

The majority of the industrialist donated Rahmi Koç Museum is an excellent example of how historic buildings a new use can feed. In the former anchor of the former Arsenal House (the shipyards) on the Golden Horn, the Foundation has set up an industrial museum, the presentation of his forth the best European standards. Are gathered beside the railway, aviation and shipping also developments in communications technology and astronomy. Walkable captain bridges, a real submarine at the jetty and beautiful miniature railways make the museum interesting for children. Tuesday-Sunday from 10-17 clock opened, the entrance will cost about 5 euros.