Northern Aegean Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
About Northern Aegean
Aeolis was a collection of city states covering this part of the coast and the nearby Greek islands, from about the 8th century BC until it was absorbed into the Roman Empire. It had a series of coves and ports around the large, V-shaped Gulf of Edremit, but right into modern times there was poor inland transport and little industry. There was small-scale agriculture, and olive groves lining the hills until giving way to pine forests on the heights. This region has never attracted western mass tourism, the big resorts are a long way south, but it did draw domestic tourism and second-home owners. This has here and there meant sympathetic restoration of old Greek and Ottoman buildings, but mostly the result is an eczema of modern mediocrity all along the shoreline. You need to get inland to
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