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Alaçatı township is part of the district of Çeşme within Turkey's İzmir Province.  The town of Alaçatı is located on the "narrow waist" Çeşme Peninsula traces in its extremity.   It is at the center of a corridor where the winds from the north to the south and in the reverse direction abound.   The dominant summer wind of poyraz allows Alaçatı to "breathe", while lodos wind which blows more frequently in winter keeps the climate mild.

The number of windy days in Alaçatı (330 days a year) is well above the average in Turkey.  This abundance of these winds is the motive that brought Alaçatı to the position of one of the foremost windsurfing centers of the world.

The town is surrounded to its north by the locality of Ilıca, famous for its beach, to its south by the port of Alaçatı where windsurfing clubs are located, and to its west with Karadağ heights covered with olive trees and, since more recent date, with vineyards.

The Alaçatı center is located at a distance of 3 km from the sea and lies at an average altitude of 16 meters. Access to Alaçatı is quite easy through the six-lane İzmir-Çeşme highway and with İzmir center at a distance of only 70 km and with Adnan Menderes Airport served by international flights at a distance of 90 km.

The main bay lies at a distance of 4 km from Alaçatı center, and right beside Alaçatı yacht marina there is a shallow section approximately 500 m in width and 330 m in length.  Therefore even non swimmers will find adequate space within such a large area to start to learn windsurfing at beginner’s level.   This bay, called Yumru Cove, is where windsurfing clubs are located and it extends for 1900 m from one end to the other.   The mountainous mass along its the eastern end helps remove any possible trainee’s anxiety associated with open sea.   The spot is surrounded by land in three directions and only the southern part joins open sea, which makes it highly safe.   Kıtesurfing is also done alongside windsurfing in the cove.

The first windsurfers came to Alaçatı harbor in the 1990s.   With the 2000s, Alaçatı's historic houses aroused the interest of those who sought secondary residences.  The first small hotel in Alaçatı was opened in 2001.  In a space of only 3-4 years, Alaçatı became one of the favorite holiday resorts of Turkey.

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