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Now let your imagination conjure up a vista
of mountains tumbling over themselves from left
and right to reach the sea. An entrancing harmony
of blue and green, varying at every hour of
the day. Cascades, streams, date palms, and
minarets from which sounds echo as the twilight
mist descends... In short, this is a real landscape
of a beauty far surpassing the imaginary scenes
described by European writers.'
Ataturk, too, came to Antalya, and declared,
'Antalya is undoubtedly the most beautiful place
in the world', words which recall those of King
Attalos 2150 years earlier. Antalya's beauty
has remained unchanged over so many centuries.
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Kayhan Dortluk is an archaeologist and director
of the Suna and Inan Kirac Mediterranean Civilisations
Research Institute, and Musa Seyirci is Director
of Culture for Antalya.Photographs
and engravings are reproduced here by courtesy
of the Suna and Inan Kirac Mediterranean Civilisations
Research Institute.
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