ANTALYA'S GATEWAY TO THE PAST KALEİÇİ
Kaleiçi, which embraces its guests with Hadrian's Gate, known to have been built in 130 AD, is also home to the marina and many other historical ruins. Tourists who enter Kaleiçi through the castle gate at the marina, first see the Yivli Minaret and then say "hello" to a fascinating journey with the 650-year-old Mevlevihane, the truncated minaret known as the first mosque in the city, the city walls and Hadrian's Gate called the three gates.
In the houses bearing the traces of neoclassical influences, the expressions "Allah" and "Mashallah" written in Arabic alphabet as well as lion, eagle and angel decorations can be seen. The houses in this area, which is an important entertainment centre today, are now used as boutique hotels, restaurants, bars, cafeterias, hostels, shopping places, souvenirs and houses.
It should also be noted that it is possible to come across a place or shop that may interest you at any time while wandering the narrow cobbled streets of Kaleiçi. Yaz Dükkan, which offers the products of Turkish designers to local and foreign tourists, is just one of them. Ebru Uçar Er, the owner of Yaz Dükkan, which has won the admiration of everyone from 7 to 70 with its concept suitable for the fascinating ambience of Kaleiçi, comments that this historical place is a very special piece of the city, marked with palm trees, surrounded by the commercial centre of the city by Atatürk Street and Turkey's most beautiful park Karaalioğlu Park and Clock Tower, opening to the sea over the cliffs and containing a historical harbour.
Ebru Uçar Er says that you will be faced with a large historical centre that will take you hours if you try to walk all around it, "Kaleiçi is one of the best preserved places in Antalya. With its narrow streets, small squares, walls, bastions, mosques and churches, it creates an atmosphere that will take you back to life at the beginning of the century. Kaleiçi is a calm, quiet and green oasis in the heart of a crowded and bustling city like Antalya."
Ebru Uçar Er, who recommends the guests who will visit Kaleiçi for the first time to wander the streets where the bay windows almost touch each other instead of suggesting special spots, states that "when they go down to the marina from Mermerliden and spend a day in Kaleiçi, local and foreign guests can encounter magnificent beauties". Er adds that they are waiting for everyone who is travelling to Kaleiçi to Yaz Dükkan to take a breath and have a coffee.
Kaleiçi, which was taken under protection as a protected area in 1972 due to its original texture, attracts all the attention with the houses it contains.
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