The city is famous for its wide beaches surrounded by hotels, including Cleopatra's beach, where, according to legend, the Egyptian queen bathed. On the territory of the huge fortress of Alanya, which was erected by the Seljuks on the top of a steep cliff going into the sea and turned into an open-air museum, there are Ottoman villas with red-tiled roofs and the octagonal tower Kyzyl-Kule (Red Tower) - the symbol of the city since 1226.
