İnciraltı is a neighborhood in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

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Geography

İnciraltı is a part of

Balçova Balçova (pronounced Balchova), is a district of Izmir Province in Turkey. It is one of the eleven districts in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Izmir, the smallest in terms of area. Balçova is a fully urbanized at the rate of 100,0 per cent an ...

second level municipality of Greater İzmir. It is a coastal neighborhood facing the gulf of İzmir to the north. Its westernmost point is at the (Yenikale headland) and the easternmost point is at (Üçkuyular pier). Between these two points there is also a fishery. The forest area to the north of the neighborhood is named İnciraltı forest. The birds flight distance to İzmir city center is about .

History

In the past İnciraltı was the most important public beach and picnic area of İzmir. In weekends, ferries used to transport İzmir citizens to İnciraltı. It was also potentially one of the development areas of İzmir. But after the area around İnciraltı was declared an

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, no new housing was permitted.

İnciraltı now

In addition to old houses there are six

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s, some hotels and some university buildings which were built out of the restricted area.

İnciraltı Sea Museum The İnciraltı Sea Museum is a naval museum in the İnciraltı neighborhood of Izmir's Balçova district in Turkey. Located near the İnciraltı Ozdilek Shopping Center, it was opened on July 1, 2007. Main attractions of the museum are two dec ...

is actually a boat. Besides İzmir applied for

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and İnciraltı is the candidate for the EXPO 2020 area.AAnews
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References

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