Heartbeats: For Antalya

Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.
Kaleiçi, with its narrow cobbled streets of historic Ottoman era houses, is the old center of Antalya. Cumhuriyet Square, the main square of Antalya, is the location for temporary open air exhibitions and performances. Antalya also features sites with traces of Lycian, Pamphylian, and Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman architecture and cultures.

International luxury hotels, such as the Sheraton, stand along the coast above the Konyaalti and Lara beaches.
Antalya’s signature cuisine includes Piyaz (made with tahini, garlic, walnuts, and boiled beans), spicy hibeş with mixed cumin and tahini, şiş köfte, tandir kebap, domates civesi, şakşuka, and various cold Mediterranean dishes with olive oil. One local speciality is tirmis, boiled seeds of the lupin, eaten as a snack. "Grida" (also known as Lagos or Mediterrenean white grouper) is a fish common in local dishes.

Antalya Piyaz

Antalya has beaches including Konyaalti, Lara and Karpuzkaldiran. For winter sports, Beydaglari and Saklikent are both natural beauties of the city.

There are a number of mosques, churches, madrasahs, masjids, hans and hamams in the city. Kaleiçi, the harbor, which the city walls enclose, is the oldest part of Antalya. Kaleiçi features many historic houses with traditional Turkish and local Greek architecture.
Sites of interest
Karpuzkaldiran