Foca and the surrounding:
Foca is located 60 km from Izmir and was founded 5000 years ago by fishermen. Until 1923 the Greek share of population was 3 to 1. Today it is differed in Yenifoca and Eski Foca. In Yenifoca is the number of inhabitants 4000, in Eski Foca 1000. The people earn their maintenance with fishing, agriculture and any handcraft, partly with small, private pensions and small hotels. The beaches, bays and the sea are absolutely clean and trimmed. Here you will find everything, from the idyllic unoccupied bay to the small uncrowded beach. Here the turkey is unspoiled and origin, this means the turkey hospitality, a lot of directness and helpfulness towards foreigners. In this region the hotels conform to the landscape and not reversed. Here the people live nature pure and celebrated.
Foca and the surrounding:
You feel like in a fairy tale in „1000 and 1 Night“. We could compare it to a lot of other, but you should make yourself your impression. In Foca and the surrounding is every day of the week a market, where everything is offered without intermediate trade: fruits and vegetables up to meat, fish or textiles. Everything you get very cheap, e.g. 4 kilos tomatoes 60 cent, 2 kilos aubergines 65 cent, 2 kilos peaches 58 cent. With textiles you should deal, which is expected. You won’t be beset or annoyed. You find a lot of sights: the antique mountain panorama, the new mountain panorama with ruins and fortifications, ruins of the old Troy, Ephesus – the pearl of the antiquity, Milet, Prie´ne, Didyma, the proud witness of the great past and the Mäander-delta as landscape acmatics. The environment is a nature park reserve.
Climate in the region of Izmir:
The peak season is from April until October. But you can bath also in November and December. The coldest months are December until February; the average of the temperature is 14°. In march 16, in April 21 and in may 26 upwards. June, July and August are with 30 up to 34 the hottest months. There is always a lighter wind which makes it bearable. September and October are with 29 and 24 ° very pleasant, in November it gets colder with 19 °. The days with the most condensation are in December and January with 10 up to 11 days. Then it gets dryer with a maximum of 6 days. From April until November you don’t have to search for clouds. There are no ones, at the most a small thunder storm. From January until the middle of April is the sea very cool with 13 or 15°, but this arises in May up to 18 and 23 ° in October. Itself in December it is bearable.
marks the location of the property in Turkish Aegean Region
