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Kemerlocated on the legendary sung in Homer's "Iliad" the land of Lycia. The surrounding city is extraordinarily rich archaeologists discovered the ruins of ancient cities, while Kemer is not as abundant historical sites. Excavations of ancient Greek cities of Phaselis and Olympos are very impressive views and informative content. In our time – this is the main attraction of the resort. Phaselis ancient city was very developed and large trading port. To our days the ruins of the amphitheatre, the remains of the aqueduct, the thermal baths and the temples of Hermes and Athena and part of the great city wall. These excavations is surrounded by a beautiful Park area where You will certainly be able to get acquainted with the picturesque features of the local flora. The top of its development, the city of Olympos reached during the time of Roman rule in these lands. On-site excavations of this ancient city, preserved not such a large number of ancient buildings, as in Phaselis, but here, among the lush thickets of trees and bushes, hidden from a cursory glance of the inhabitants, the city wall and the colonnade, which can feel like a true Pathfinder, trapped in the time of ancient myths, where life centaurs, Cyclops and the sirens. On the territory of the ruins of Olympos, rises amazing, shrouded in many mysterious legends Chimera, which continually comes to the surface spontaneously combustible natural gas. A similar phenomenon is observed here for more than a thousand years. On the plateau of the Chimeras were found the remains of an ancient temple of the mythical God of fire of Gefes. Excavations of the site of Olympos are easily accessible in unsurpassed eco-Park of the village of Tekirova, where it grows about 400 thousand different plants and inhabited by several dozen different species of fauna. Another amazing place on the outskirts of Kemer is the ancient Lycian city in the World, where the rector of the Cathedral he served Saint Nicholas. It is believed that the Kemer was established as a small village before our era. And until the early twentieth century – has remained a small settlement, called Eskici, which translated from Turkish means "Old village". A watershed moment in the development of Kemer was the construction of a stone wall that would protect the settlement from constantly threatening him mudslides and that visually was surrounded by not only the settlement itself but also the mountain under which it was located. Hence the name of the future city "Kemer", meaning "Belt" in Turkish. After the onset of the so-called "tourist boom" on the coast of Antalya, Kemer reached its true dawn and prosperity.