Paspatur Old Town (Eski Şehir)

This guide to Paspatur, Fethiye's old bazaar quarter, opens with a stone fountain hidden down a back lane and the local legend that drinking from it guarantees you'll return to the city. It traces the disaster behind the neighborhood's survival: two earthquakes that struck seven hours apart in April 1957, damaging roughly ninety percent of the town then known as Makri. A short run of stone houses and old grain stores near this fountain happened to still be standing when the rebuilding began.