WHERE DOES THE NAME CESME COME FROM?
Çeşme is a charming holiday resort where healing hot waters, sand of exceptional quality, sun and clarity embrace. Cesme is 94 km from Izmir. It was founded on the west of the peninsula that bears its name. It was called the small port by the sailors. However, due to the abundance of spring waters in and around Çeşme, and the fountains that multiplied over time and where ice-cold waters flowed, the region was called Çeşme. Building fountains around these constantly flowing springs is one of our old traditions, as it is today. The fountain got its name from these fountains, which are said to have been around a hundred once. All of these fountains have their own unique features and architecture.
While some of these fountains have remained intact for centuries, some of them have survived to the present day thanks to restorations. While there are those who had to move from their places to other places during the road widening works, many of them were lost due to the drying up of the source, natural events or other reasons.
GEOGRAPHY
Cesme district of Izmir province in Aegean Region, 80 km. It is the westernmost point of Anatolia at a distance. Its area is 2601 km2. Çeşme, which is neighbor to the Urla district from the east, the Aegean Sea from the south and west, and the Karaburun district from the north; Its distance to Chios, which is a part of Greece, is 8 miles. The population of the district is 33,931 within the scope of the 2012 Address-Based Population Registration System.
The western part of the Urla Peninsula, surrounded by the sea on three sides, is called the Çeşme peninsula. The steep descent of the mountains to the sea in Çeşme has created magnificent natural beauties. The land is generally covered with stony and rocky hills, and there are small plains between the hills. The land is mostly sloping. The soil structure is pebbly, sandy, calcareous. In some areas there are loamy and calcareous surfaces. Countless coves, clear sea, sun, fine sands, sulphurous waters boiling in the sea are scattered along the 29 km coast of the peninsula. There are Şifne, Küçük harbor, Diamond, Paşa harbor, Ilıca beach, Çiftlik, Altınkum, Çatal azmak, Sakızlı bay, Tekke beach, Ayayorgi and nearly twenty beaches with different names.