touristic information of turkey » kalkan http://www.surfcu.com antalya - cesme - alacati - istanbul - kusadasi - kalkan - alanya Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:10:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Letoon – Kalkan / ANTALYA http://www.surfcu.com/letoon-kalkan-antalya.htm http://www.surfcu.com/letoon-kalkan-antalya.htm#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:24:26 +0000 admin http://www.surfcu.com/?p=29 It is near Kumluova Village at 65th km of Fethiye – Kas highway. In accordance with a story told by the poet Ovidius, the city was established in the name of Leto, who became pregnant from Zeus. The traces of old settlement in the city goes back to 7th century BC. The ruins and the inscriptions obtained show that this place was a religious and political area. There are three temples at the center of the ruin place side by side. The one at the most northern direction is devoted to Leto, the one in the middle is devoted to Artemis and the one in the south is devoted to Apollo. In the southwest of the temples, there is a fountain building and just beside it, there is a church. In the northern side of the city, there is a Stoa and a theater, which gives its rear side to the natural slope partially, belonging to the Hellenistic Period. Letoon has been left in the 7th century AD.

]]> http://www.surfcu.com/letoon-kalkan-antalya.htm/feed 0 Kalkan / ANTALYA http://www.surfcu.com/kalkan-antalya.htm http://www.surfcu.com/kalkan-antalya.htm#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:20:20 +0000 admin http://www.surfcu.com/?p=23 Kalkan has been a place of settlement since antiquity with the important location as the only safe harbour between Kas and Fethiye. Kalkan was a very important port during the 19th century – even more so than Fethiye or Antalya, its two larger neighbors.

The Kalkan you see today was settled 150 to 200 years ago by people of both Greek and Turkish origin subject to the Ottoman Empire. Camels brought goods to Kalkan from the nearby Xanthos valley and from as far away as the mountain highlands near Elmali. Cargo ships were then loaded in Kalkan’s harbour to sail for the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire carrying charcoal, silk (you can see many mulberry trees in Kalkan today), olive oil (still produced in Kalkan) and wine, as well as cotton, grain, sesame seed, flour, grapes, acorns used for dye, and lumber from the vast cedar and pine forests.

By the early 20th century Kalkan had become quite a sizeable village. At the turn of the century it had its own custom’s house and in 1915 there were reportedly seventeen restaurants, a goldsmith, a shoemaker and several tailors. The first local elections were held in 1928 and in 1937 the present elementary school was opened.

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