The resort town Side is an ideal place for those who like sights of interests. Here you can enjoy Roman ruins in the middle of the city center and the city itself is virtually a living outdoor museum. White stone houses, narrow alleys and flowering bougainvillea is mixed with antique temple ruins and a well thought out supply of shops, boutiques, bazaars, restaurants with terrace cafés, and discotheques.

Side
The city is located 75 kilometers from Antalya and it takes approximately one hour to get here from the airport.

Side is on a cape surrounded by long beaches with fine-grained sand. The place is filled with history and is among other things famous for its old ring-wall and the well-preserved Roman theatre. The city has a steady population of 6,500 citizens but in the high season this amount doubles. Side is a paradise for families with children since this is a small town with a calm pace that still has so much to offer in entertainment and so many sights of interest to visit.

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The best sand beaches
Side has some of the best beaches on the Turkish Riviera and the beaches have incredibly fine-grained sand. Here are two nice beaches to choose between, the one to the east is a little bit calmer with fewer people, but the sand is more hard-grained and the waves can be big here. The west beach is shallow and the sand is fine-grained, which is the reason why families mostly go to the west beach. It takes about an hour from Antalya’s airport to get to Side.

The Roman theatre