Visit Santa Claus on your Kalkan villa vacation

Visit Santa Claus on your Kalkan villa vacation

Every December, when there are only a few days left for the New Year, family members or groups of friends receive different gifts for each other. Young children, especially in European countries, are eagerly awaiting the gifts that Santa Claus will bring to them. Depicted with a sleigh pulled by reindeer and his red outfit, Santa Claus also draws attention with his cute nature. Although Santa Claus is portrayed with a sleigh pulled by deer in a snow-covered geography, the truth has nothing to do with the story. The person known as Santa Claus is a person named St. Nicholas, who was born, grew up and received religious education in Patara, one of the most important cities of the Lycian civilization, and later became a bishop in Myra, one of the important cities of Lycia. However, since he is loved and respected in the Orthodox Christian world, his name has not been mentioned much with these lands.

As we have just mentioned, Saint Nicholas, who was born in Patara, a district of Kaş, and became a bishop in Myra, was buried in the church built in his name in the ancient city of Myra in Demre district, which is 1 hour away from Kaş today. After the flood disaster that destroyed the city of Myra, the church built by the Russian Orthodox Christians was buried under the ground. The church was unearthed with the work of archaeologists. Today, the church, which serves tourism as the Santa Claus Museum, is visited by more than 500 thousand foreign tourists every year.

The tomb of St. Nicholas, known as Santa Claus, is inside the church as we mentioned above. However, his bones were stolen from the church by pirates and taken to Bari, Italy. And he was buried in a church built by the locals in the city of Bari. Although the grave where his bones are found is in Italy, the presence of the St. Nicholas Church in Demre is an important value for our country as well as for Antalya.

If you wish, you can visit the Santa Claus Church when you have a wonderful holiday with a rental villa in Kalkan. What you need to do for this is to go to Demre district, which is 90 kilometers from Kalkan. In addition to the Santa Claus Church, Demre district stands out with 2 ancient cities and 3 magnificent beaches. During your holiday, you will witness the cultural richness of our region as well as staying in a luxury villa with a round trip of 3-4 hours.

Your Kalkan rental villa address villanisec.com gives you information about the natural beauties and cultural heritage of our region, as well as honeymoon villa and conservative villa options.

Have a nice holiday.