Cradled between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean, Antalya is the gateway to the Turkish Riviera and a city where Roman gates open onto palm-lined boulevards. The old quarter of Kaleici still wraps around a horseshoe harbor where wooden gulets bob beside Ottoman mansions turned boutique hotels. Just outside the city, ancient Lycian and Pamphylian sites such as Perge, Aspendos and the cliffside ruins of Termessos sit a short drive from waterfalls plunging straight into the sea. Whether you come for the beaches, the hiking trails of the Lycian Way or the long, citrus-scented summer evenings, Antalya rewards every kind of traveler.
