KAYAKOYU KAYA VILLAGE FETHIYE - MOSAICS OF CULTURES

Beyond the Fethiye breastwork traveling south, if you chase the alley aggressive up to the abruptness some 7 km. you can appear to a arresting lowland area Anatolian Greeks had lived until 1922. Greeks alleged the boondocks Levissi in the past. Kaya Koyu in the year 1922 during the barter of Turks in Thrace with Anatolian Greeks was alone and the new association did not yield up the absolute houses. Kaya become a “Ghost Town” as an alone boondocks afterwards 1923.

2 churches, chapels, abundant houses, schools, library, hospital, work—shops and the added structures will be adapted anon according to a activity which is fabricated by The Association of Turkish Travel Agencies and The Chamber Of Turkish Architects. Afterwards the renovation, Kaya Koyu will serve as the abode of “ Piece & Accord Village” and be adequate forever.

From Hisaronu, afterward the alley arch to the west a part of the forests of ache trees, we ability Kayakoyu, about 3 kms. from Hisaronü. There is aswell a absolute adjustment in the south of Fethiye.

In the years of 1900, Kayakoyu was an important adjustment centermost with a citizenry of 20.000. It was alone in band with an barter acceding active amid Turkey and Greece in 1924. Today Kayakoy looks like a "Ghost Town" area two churches and a academy are in the action of apology with the aim of establishing a apple of accord in the region. On the slopes, there are bedrock houses congenital in archetypal Mediterranean style, not overshadowing one another, schools, churches, chapels, workshops and added buildings, as able-bodied as intercrossing attenuated streets, all of which ore evocative of an architectural laboratory. Kayakoyu is beneath aegis as a arresting sample of the Anatolian cultural circuitous and will become a apple of friendship, peace, science and arts in the abreast future, if the apology and planning efforts are completed.

A few kilometers from Fethiye, aggressive accomplished the age-old breastwork and bedrock tomb of King Amyntas, the ache copse accord way to the awkward mural of the Kaya Village. Here a abbreviating amount of bounded families till the acreage and tend their animals. Some of ld Greek bedrock houses accept been anxiously adequate to accommodate atmospheric and peaceful anniversary homes. Visitors can walk, aeon or even horse-ride about the pathways and lanes of the basin pausing at the simple teahouses, restaurants and accepted food or continuing the few kilometers down to the Gemiler Beach. Perhaps everyone's a lot of active anamnesis of Kaya Basin is the addictive choreography of the houses, shops and churches of the already advancing Greek boondocks of Levissii.