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ALANYA DAMLATAS Cave ( Damlatas Mağarası )

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The number of caves which have been discovered and studied mainly by MTA (Mineral Research and Exploration Directorate) is approximately over 3000 in Turkey. This figure reveals the importance and dimensions of cave tourism in our Country.

 Despite the fact cave tourism is widely known in the world, there are very few examples of caves opened to tourism in Turkey.

MAĞTUR Mağara Turizmi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (MAĞTUR Cave Tourism and Trade Society Anonim) was founded in 1993 by 7 partners, the majority of whom are experienced earth scientists. It would not be wrong to say that our venture had started with the love of nature and this love urged us to discover new caves to be appreciated by the enthusiasts.

While opening one or more caves to tourism one of the vitalobjective we had to bear in mind has been and will be the worry of developing resolutions to secure their natural formations with the motive of transmitting these legendary sites to next generations with utmost care, in other words without the slightest damage inflicting their natural formations.

MAĞTUR S.A. has become a member of ISCA (International Show Caves Association), with the above mentioned purposes. Following an intinsive construction period of one year, the Company has made the debut by the end of 1998.

We are pleased to welcome you in our site, where you can discover one of the examples of mystical formations in the world. Dim Cave site, is a part of this natural wonder which had been formed by movements of water for millions of years had been a scene to history and a home to mankind. During our day 360 metres long cave has been carefully protected and allocated to public visit.

ALANYA HARBOUR (iskele)

ALANYA HARBOUR ; MOST CROWDED AND POPULAR AREA IN ALANYA

ALANYA DIM RIVER

PICTURES OF ALANYA

ALANYA CASTLE

Most of the castle was built in the 13th century under the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm following the city's conquest in 1220 by Alaeddin Keykubad I as part of a building campaign that included the Kızıl Kule.

The castle is located 250 metres (820 ft) high on a rocky peninsula jutting into theMediterranean Sea, which protects it from three sides. The wall which surrounds the castle is 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) long and includes 140 towers. 400 different cisterns were built to serve the castle.^[1] In 2009, city officials filed to include Alanya Castle and Tersane as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and were named to the 2009 Tentative List.^[2][3]The castle was built on the remnants of earlier Byzantine era and Roman erafortifications. After the area was pacified under the Ottoman Empire, the castle ceased to be purely defensive, and numerous villas were built inside the walls during the 19th century. Today the building is an open air museum. Access to the seaward castle is ticketed, but much of the area inside the wall, including the landward castle is open to the general public.

Alanya 

(Turkish pronunciation: [aˈɫanja]), formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a component district of Antalya Province in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey, 138 kilometres (86 mi) from the city of Antalya. On the southern coast of Turkey, the district (which includes the city and its built-up area) has an area of 1,598.51 km² and (2010 Census) 248,286 inhabitants (city 98,627).^[3]

Because of its natural strategic position on a small peninsula into theMediterranean Sea below the Taurus Mountains, Alanya has been a local stronghold for many Mediterranean-based empires, including the Ptolemaic,Seleucid, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Alanya's greatest political importance came in the Middle Ages, with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm under the rule of Alaeddin Kayqubad I, from whom the city derives its name. His building campaign resulted in many of the city's landmarks, such as the Kızıl Kule (Red Tower), Tersane (Shipyard), and Alanya Castle.

The Mediterranean climate, natural attractions, and historic heritage makes Alanya a popular destination for tourism, and responsible for nine percent ofTurkey's tourism sector and thirty percent of foreign purchases of real estate in Turkey. Tourism has risen since 1958 to become the dominant industry in the city, resulting in a corresponding increase in city population. Warm-weather sporting events and cultural festivals take place annually in Alanya. In 2014 Mayor Adem Murat Yücel, of the Nationalist Movement Partyunseated Hasan Sipahioğlu, of the Justice and Development Party, who had previously led the city since 1999.