resemble an outdoor museum. In very few parts of the world can you board a boat from an ancient harbor and bathe among rocks cut two thousand years ago.
Side was destroyed and looted by the Arab invasions. The Cretan migrants, who settled in the area later in the 19th century, made use of the ancient ruins and set up a village under the name of Selimiye. You might come across the traditional Aegean houses in the streets -houses that once belonged to the Cretan settlers.
