A Villa In Turkey - Local Attractions

Thursday, May 24th 2012.

Tat International Golf Course is a dream land between sea and river with spectacular view of Taurus mountains on the backdrop.

To play one great golf course is always a challenge.
To play two is a rare privilege indeed.

The course has been specifically designed for the avid and demanding european golfer.
Tat offers all year round golfing and a choice of three championship 9 hole layouts provides different 18 hole combinations.
Designed by Hawtree of England, Golf Course Architects.

The courses designed by leading architects European Golf Design, together with design consultant and Senior Tour professional David Jones, provide not only a challenge to golfers of all abilities but also wonderful surroundings in which enjoy your game.

National offers something special for all levels of golfer.
For those just starting out there is a professional team of highly trained PGA Pros who will look after your swing.

Aspendos is known for its best-preserved theatre of antiquity with seating for 15.000. Still used today, the theatre's galleries, stage decorations and acoustics

Following your lesson or game of golf, you can take advantage of a 40 bay Driving Range, 2 chipping and putting greens and a practice bunker.
National also have a superb 9 hole Academy Course which suits any standard of golfer, with its wide tree lined holes and water coming into play on several of the tee shots. It can also be an excellent warm-up before your round on the Championship Course.

The region stretches for over 100kms and Includes the towns of Side, Alanya and the New tourist area of Belek Side and Alanya are more traditional whilst Belek boasts 4 international Golf Clubs and Numerous other activities all within 25 mins Of Antalya International Airport

Perge, one of Pamphylia's foremost cities, was founded on a wide plain between two hills 4 km. west of the Kestros (Aksu) river

The resort area of Belek has grown up along a fantastic ribbon of a white sand beach backed by lush pine forests turquoise rivers descending from the Taurus Mountains

Skylax, who lived in the fourth century B.C. and was the earliest of the ancient writers to mention Perge, states that the city was in Pamphylia.
In the New Testament book, Acts of the Apostles, the sentence "...when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia" suggests that Perge could be reached from the sea in ancient times

Belek is within easy reach of the facilities and amenities of Antalya, including the international airport, which is only a 20-minute drive away.
The wonderfully preserved 20,000 seat Roman theatre of Aspendos, which still hosts concerts and recitals during the summer months, is also nearby.

Saklikent - Situated north east of Bakirli dagi the Beydag mountain range, 50 km north west of Antalya, at a height of 2000 m

A great Aquapark with different facilities for both adults and children.

There are restaurants, shops and a supermarket.
The best season is from January to April
The special attraction of this centre is that in March and April one can ski in the mornings then drive down to the coast and swim in the warm waters of the Medite rranean in the afternoons.

Numerous slides for all ages

Also on site there is a ten pin bowling alley and a disco which carries on late into the evening

All this within 15 minutes walk of the villa

A brand new Hospital has recently been completed
on the main road near the villa approxiamately 500
metres away

The city of Antalya stretches along the bay bearing its name, and is built at 39 metres altitude on a rocky coastline. One is immediately struck by the Taurus mountains nearby

The Hospital has all the modern amenities you would need including an accident and emergency area

In Antalya the four seasons only appear on the calendar, as there is no real winter here, so much so that when in 1985 for the first time in 60 years snow fell, it was front page news.

The summers are hot and rainless while the other months are warm and occasionally rainy, with a mean annual temperature of 18.7 °C.
On average there is no rain for 309.5 days a year.