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Kale Quarter Historic Hillside Streets
Historic residential lanes on the Acropolis slope, where ancient blocks interlock with Ottoman stone-and-timber houses on the way down to the lower town.
After the Turkish period the settlement left the crest for the slopes and the plain, and Kale Quarter became the residential layer of that descent. Ground floors are cut stone and reused blocks; upper floors are built as timber projections or bağdadi infill. The narrow lanes trace both the old descent toward the Roman agora and the later Seljuk and Ottoman neighborhood additions.
Why visit
To see that the passage between the ancient terraces and the bazaar is still a lived neighborhood.
Walk down from the Acropolis exit in the morning, and do not repeat the same lanes uphill once the late light hits the facades.
