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District and municipality in Antalya, Turkey
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Elmalı is a town in the Lycia region of Mediterranean Turkey. It's 110 km west of Antalya and 35 km from the coast, at an altitude of 1100 m in the Taurus Mountains. It sees little tourism, but it's a starting point for hikes into the mountains. It's the chief town of Elmali district, which had a population of 40,000 in 2022; the town is not separately numerated but has about 15,000.
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Small but informative archaeology museum. Exhibits include the Elmali treasure (hazinesi), some 1900 Lycian and other ancient coins looted from the area in 1984 and smuggled to the west, but returned to Turkey thanks to detective and legal work in the 1990s.
Fine mosque and medrese built in 1602 AD, but it's been closed for restoration for years, with no completion in sight.
Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır (1877–1942) was a cleric, scholar and politician whose Turkish translation of the Koran is still a standard version. This mansion has been converted into an exhibition of his life and work; he never lived in this building.
A winery at the edge of the plain.
Simple but clean friendly place.
More like a hostel but clean and comfy. Don't follow map directions to Akça Otel near the bus station - both have disappeared.
Small rooms but clean.
Bus EA01 runs from Antalya every 30-60 min, taking two hours via Korkuteli.
Read in the guideElmali is small enough to cover on foot. From Eski Otogar head north up the slope to come into the main part of town.
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