Sığacık is a seaside neighborhood of

Seferihisar Seferihisar is a coastal district and the center town of the same district in İzmir Province, in Turkey. Seferihisar district area borders on other İzmir districts of Urla to the west and Menderes ( Cumaovası) to the east, and touches İzmir's ...

ilçe (district) of

İzmir Province İzmir Province ( tr, İzmir ili) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey in western Anatolia, situated along the Aegean coast. Its capital is the city of İzmir, which is in itself composed of the province's central 11 distri ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. It is at . Its distance to Seferihisar centrum is less than . It is situated on a small peninsula, facing north. The harbor is in the east side of and the beaches are in the west side. Its population is 3637 Sığacık is next to the ancient Ionian city of

Teos Teos ( grc, Τέως) or Teo was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, on a peninsula between Chytrium and Myonnesus. It was founded by Minyans from Orchomenus, Ionians and Boeotians, but the date of its foundation is unknown. Teos was ...

. An Ottoman castle (now in ruins) built in 1522 is also in Sığacık. Up to 2009 Sığacık was a fishermen's village. But after Seferihisar became a city of

Cittaslow Cittaslow is an organisation founded in Italy and inspired by the slow food movement. Cittaslow's goals include improving the quality of life in towns by slowing down its overall pace, especially in a city's use of spaces and the flow of life a ...

, Sığacık gained fame as a town of quiet holiday resort.Kesfetsek page
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Gallery

File:Sığacık 04.jpg, Sığacık Bay File:Sığacık Bay 06.jpg, Aerial view of the Sığacık Bay File:Cittaslow Sığacık.jpg, Cittaslow Sığacık File:Ottoman Castle in Sığacık.jpg, Ruined walls of the Ottoman Castle

References

{{Commons category-inline, Sığacık Seaside resorts in Turkey Populated coastal places in Turkey Seferihisar Tourist attractions in İzmir Province