Things to Do in Antalya

The city's twin cascades: an upper falls in a shaded park you can walk behind, and the famous lower falls thundering 40 m off the cliffs straight into the Mediterranean.

The Roman world's best-preserved theatre — 15,000 seats, stage building intact, acoustics still good enough for real performances two millennia on.

Antalya's walled heart: Ottoman mansions over Roman foundations, the fluted Yivli Minare, Hadrian's marble gate and lanes spilling down to the ancient harbour.

Sea-to-sky in ten minutes: the cable car up 2,365 m Tahtalı for a view from Lycian peaks to the whole Antalya gulf.

The cotton-castle travertines and Hierapolis' ruins — a long but classic day north from the coast, swimming over sunken columns in Cleopatra's pool.