Kusadasi, or Birds’ Island, is known as a “fisher- men’s village.
Originally it is a quiet garden where farmers harvested thyme, sage, wild roses, figs, grapes and olives. It is - and we hope it will stay long - an animated village.

In the golden years of Ephesus, Kusadasi - then Neopolis - was already a holiday resort for the Ephesians. 
When the Caystros river dried out, the Byzantines have chosen Neopolis as the new harbor and so Scala Nova became an important commercial center inhabited by Greek, Armenian, Jewish and Italian business men till the end of World War I. Kusadasi was already conquered by the Ottomans in 1413 and became an independent district in 1865. Till 1954 it was bound to Izmir and is today a district of Aydin.

Curiosities :
the old village up hill, the Pigeons' Island and its castle, the Kervansaray, the Ottoman city walls and gates, the municipal hamam (XVIth century), the "Kaleici" and the "Hanim" mosque, the aqueduc (behind the Tansas supermarket) and the natural park of Kalamaki (30km).