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Enez tourist information
Enez tourist information
One of the last places in Eastern Thrace that the Ottoman Turks had taken control of, Enez, or Ainos as it was called then, was captured by Ottomans a full three years after the fall of Constantinople, in 1456, from the Genoese who ruled the town since 1355 as one of their trading posts along the Aegean and Black Sea coasts.
Enez today is a sleepy provincial town which sees some sort of liveliness only June through August, when people from surrounding towns and cities?especially from nearby inland city of Edirne?move in for the summer to their holiday homes in the conglomeration of two-storey buildings on the plains behind the beach, 5 km south of Enez, and actually several times larger and more populous than the town proper itself (which has a constant/winter population of around 4,000). During this time, Enez can be reasonably dubbed as "Edirne-all-packed-and-moved-to-the-beach". During the rest of the year, though, the beach neighbourhood turns into a total ghost town.
Enez sees almost no international travellers, and the fact that the town was a military zone until early 2000s with very limited access for non-Turks as it lies just on the Greek border plays no small part in this, although it's now open to all.
Sights in the town can be done as in little time as half a day, even if you pay a very detailed attention. The main draw is actually the long, sandy beach and the crystal clear sea, spared from all kinds of pollution.
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