Elmalı

Elmalı lies in a high basin of the western Taurus, between the Lycian coast and the Anatolian interior. Its fields and orchards stand beneath the surrounding mountains, along routes leading toward Antalya and the Mediterranean. In the early seventeenth century the Ottoman statesman Ketenci Ömer Pasha endowed a large mosque in the town. Its domed prayer hall and classical Ottoman design gave the market centre a prominent monument during a period of unrest in Anatolia.