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Worth visiting!
A wonderful little harbour town
It’s easy to run out of superlatives when describing this place. It’s warm, friendly and although it caters well for tourists it is not overdeveloped. There’s no building going on in the summer months!
The best part of Kalkan is the number of restaurants that are crammed into its cobbled streets. There must be over 100 and they are all of good quality with plenty of variety – the food is pretty cosmopolitan too.
It’s ideal for people who want a relaxing holiday. No brawling lager-louts or thumping nightclubs but plenty of nightlife for real grown-ups. Thoroughly recommended!
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Introduction to Kalkan
November 20, 2006
When Erkut Taçkin, the famous Turkish singer from the 1960s bought a house in Kalkan, the village's fate was sealed. For the Turkish "smart set," it had become the place to go. The luster of this slick resort superimposed over a seaside village is indisputable. Contrary to its popular perception as a fishing town, however, Kalkan was actually settled around 150 to 200 years ago by merchants from the nearby Greek island of Meis (Castellorizo). By the turn of the last century Kalkan thrived on the production of charcoal, silk, cotton, and olive oil -- it even had its own customs house. As early as the 1950s and '60s, the town began to attract rich English yachtspeople, leading to a trend in the 1980s of transforming dilapidated houses into characteristic whitewashed homes with shuttered windows and timber balconies.
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