Antalya Kaleiçi Ancient City & Marina
Walled old-city harbour where Roman galleys, Crusader ships, and Ottoman traders once anchored.
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Antalya Kaleiçi's ancient harbor traces its founding to King Attalos II of Pergamon, whose scouts called this stretch of coast heaven on earth around 150 BC. You'll hear how Rome's Pompey used the port to break the Cilician pirates, how French crusaders loaded ships here under Louis VII in 1148, and how Seljuk rulers later raised the fluted red-brick minaret still visible above the old town. The guide traces the harbor's shifting rulers and travelers across two thousand years. Stand at the quayside where the old stone walls meet the water.
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