We went on a three night trip to Çıralı along the coast, passing two of the three main sites associated with St Nicholas.
Some distance from the North Pole and with a very different climate, Father Christmas was born in Patara which is very close to Kalkan and somewhere most of our guests have visited with us. He then spent most of his life in Myra and Demre, which are off the dramatic coast road from Kaş to Antalya. Myra is the site of an old Lycian city, taken over by the Greeks and then the Romans. Demre is the home of the St Nicholas church, built in 520 on the foundations of the church where he was bishop, and contains his tomb. This is a major site for Russian tourists as he is their patron saint.
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