District and municipality in Antalya, Turkey
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Finike is a town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, with a population of 21,800 in 2022. It has tourist facilities but isn't in the western package brochures, as it's a relatively long transfer from Antalya to a not-very-good beach. The main reason to visit is its ruined ancient cities, with Limyra the closest.
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Rambling ruins of a Lycian city, a large town by 1000 BC and embellished in Roman times. The main sights are the amphitheatre, the Lycian necropolises with the mausoleum of Pericles, and the mausoleum of Gaius Caesar, heir to the Roman emperor but he died here 21 AD from injuries in the war against Armenia. A river flows through the site, clean and fresh enough to swim in, and partly submerging a basilica. The site is unkempt and partly overgrown, with goats and sheep wandering about.
In contrast to Limyra this city was compact, constrained by its hilly site, and its Lycian / Hellenistic structures were built over by the Romans. There's a theatre (clumsily restored), tombs, churches and temples, an agora and stoas. Water supply was as tight a constraint as the site: the baths are some way downhill, probably to maximise the head of water pressure, but you'd be sweaty and dusty again by the time you tramped back up to town.
Ruins of a Lycian city, which you'll probably have to yourself. Like the others it was probably substantial by the 3rd century BC, and embellished in Roman times. It was abandoned after an earthquake in the 3rd century AD, and lying on a remote hillside its masonry wasn't recycled. There's a well-preserved theatre, two agoras, an odeon, stadium, two necropolises and several bath houses.
Mixed reviews for this beachfront hotel.
Pleasant small beachfront hotel.
Simple hotel, usually clean.
Adequate hotel south edge of town.
Finike stands on the coast highway D400, which twists and turns from Bodrum via Fethiye to Antalya (the closest airport) then away out east.
Read in the guideLocal buses from the otogar include FT01 to Turunçova, FT02 to Kumluca and FH06 to Hasyurt.
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