One of the larger holiday resorts, Marmaris is probably the most European of the Turkish resort towns on the Mediterranean coast and is a bustling cosmopolitan tourist centre in the summer months. Marmaris also marks the start of the Turquoise Coast along the Mediterranean Sea. Built around an extensive natural bay at the foot of forested mountain slopes, the town is the best base for some of the finest sailing in the Mediterranean. Its modern marina caters for private yachts and holiday cruise business. According to legend, the town got its name when, not finding the castle he had commissioned on the hill to his liking, Suleyman the Magnificent muttered 'mimarias'('hang the architect').
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