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Alanya is seaside resort city as well as district of the Antalya Province in Mediterranean Region of the Turkey, 120 km from city of Antalya. Municipal district that includes city center, which has 400,000 inhabitants and the population is about entirely of the Anatolian origin, however is home to 10,000 European inhabitants, with growing presence in a city and the economy. Alanya is beautiful vacation center of the modern hotels and motels, many fish restaurants, cafes and bars. Cafes that will ring harbor have become famous gathering places for the tourists. From town’s lovely park, road runs all along coast to harbor, which are lined with innumerable boutiques, which tempt tourists with the handicrafts, clothes, leather, handbags, jewelry, and amusing painted gourds, symbol of area. In August, Alanya hosts colorful Worldwide Folklore Festival atmosphere is exciting with energy and gaiety.

And modern hotels, huge selection of café and restaurants offer wide variety of cuisines from the Turkish to the International with local specialty being fish, which is fresh from sea. There are restaurants, cafes and bars with resorts energetic nightlife that are centered on harbor area where lots of bars are open unless 3 to 4 in morning! Lots of shops, supermarkets as well as weekly Friday market will give you chance to watch local life & haggle for the bargains.

Alanya is the town of two bays that are divided by rocky promontory that is been crowned by mighty Ottoman castle, just below lies delightful harbor that are guarded by 13th Century Tower. Town has grown fast over last fifteen years with the development now extending over 20km all along coast as well as has over 90,000 residents that include 9,000 foreign inhabitants, who are been attracted by hot summers, the mild winters as well as low price of living. Resort is mainly famous with Dutch, Scandinavian, German and the British tourists.

Alanya also enjoys typical hot Mediterranean climate where sun shines for over 300 days per year and temperature will not drops less than 10C in winter with the standard summer temperatures over 28C. Average temperature for year is around 19C.

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