Beaches in Dalaman

Beaches in Dalaman

See Ruined baths of Hamam Bay Dalaman town is modern. The central mosque (Merkez Cami) is in traditional style but only built in 1991, and Düç Mosque west end of main street is similar. 36.767628.79531 "Railway Station" is really the State Farm offices, Tarım İşletmesi Müdürlüğü, but a modern myth tells that it's a station built by mistake, hundreds of km away from any railway. Abbās Ḥilmī Pāshā (1874-1944) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (the hereditary Ottoman viceroy) and owned vast tracts of farmland around Dalaman. In 1905 he supposedly commissioned a hunting lodge here plus a railway station in Alexandria, and the plans and materials got swopped. Some versions of the legend add a stretch of railway track leading nowhere. The building is a fine late Ottoman mansion that doesn't remotely resemble a railway station (look at that tiny main door, and where's the clocktower?) and Alexandria already had two sturdy stations by that date. Abbās was a better farmer than a statesman, establishing model farms in Egypt; he probably intended the same here and that is what the building has become. But he antagonised the…

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