The Antalya Coast is more dynamic developed and more significant for economy of Turkish region. The tourist business gives to the State the milliards of profit. The quantity of tourists having visited the country for the last 15 years enlarge in 2.8 times and has reached dimensions over 19 million people.
The Antalya Coast occupies the leading place in the country according to consumed potentiality. Steady tendency of dynamic development is characterized for Antalya economic for a few years.
In the 2nd century up to A.D. The king of Pergamon Attalus ordered his warriors to find the most beautiful place on the Earth to base the city. After long searches they found a place and have told to the king: " It must be paradise! "
He based the city situated on a cape in a wonderful gulf, under the covering of a mountain range Tavra, and named it in his honor -Attalya. A bond wall, rests of which are kept till now, protected the city from the opposite side. Now Antalya is divided into a new and an old city, the first one is with modern large buildings, the second - much more interesting, with characteristic Osman wooden painted houses, with antique Roman port, old market. In the old city surrounded with the bond wall, there are 664 historical private residences, the part from which was constructed during Sacred Roman Empire and is under protection of the State.
The cheerful celebratory city, first of all is truly the Mediterranean, solar, rich with vegetation, and with the transparent, light-blue sea. Simultaneously ancient and having all conveniences of the city of the 21 century, beginning from the International airport, exhibition centers and finishing infinite turns of restaurants, night clubs and discos.
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