With the Kaleiçi Old Town Festival organized by Muratpaşa Municipality, taking place from October 17 to 20, the historic center of Antalya will come alive for four full days with concerts, performances, dance shows, painting and sculpture exhibitions, talks, and art workshops.

With Muratpaşa Municipality’s project, “Memory Spaces and Cultural Heritage - Antalya Kaleiçi Houses,” which brings the history of everyday life in Kaleiçi to light, the story of Ali Zülfikar Bey, Atatürk’s intelligence officer who once lived in Kaleiçi, has been narrated in four languages.

At the opening dinner of the 9th Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, Antalya Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal stated that if humanity does not protect cultural assets and heritage, the world will experience a decline in both peace and aesthetics.

The municipal delegations from 23 cities across 18 countries, attending the 9th Kaleiçi Old Town Festival organized by Antalya Muratpaşa Municipality, visited the festival's host, Mayor Ümit Uysal, as well as Antalya Governor Hulusi Şahin.

The traditional procession of the Kaleiçi Old Town Festival organized by Antalya Muratpaşa Municipality was the scene of colorful scenes on the streets of the living ancient city. While Kaleiçi accompanied all its guests to the lively songs of the festival band, wooden legs and fire magicians attracted great attention.

Antalya Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal, in the forum titled ‘migration and intercultural harmony’ held at the 9th Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, stated that there is a very large-scale migration movement in the world and said, “This is producing a world where tolerance and integration have become very, very important.”

On the occasion of the commencement of diplomatic relations between Czechia and Turkey and the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, the Czech Republic, sister city of Muratpaşa Municipality, opened the ‘Czech-Turkish Cooperation Park’ in its capital Prague 6.

Antalya Muratpaşa Municipality shared the joy of the New Year with its sister cities around the world. In mutual congratulatory messages exchanged with 21 cities spanning a wide geography from Belgium to China, Indonesia to Ukraine, the emphasis was on peace, solidarity, and brotherhood.

Antalya Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal stated that the China-ASEAN Mayors Forum, to which he was invited on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of sister city relations with Gulin Municipality, was very productive and added: ""In addition to our mass tourism, which is rising with the struggles of our tourists, we continue to promote and integrate with the world on every platform so that our Muratpaşa and Antalya city centre can receive tourists."

Kaleiçi, the historical city centre of Antalya, is now being promoted in China. Promotional films of the ancient city will be shown throughout the year on the Guilin-Muratpaşa Friendship Bus, which was created for the 10th anniversary of Muratpaşa Municipality's becoming a sister city with Guilin, one of the most important tourism cities of the country.

Antalya Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal gave the good news that they will organize a Flower Festival in which 20 schools will compete every May starting from next year. Uysal said that they will also start the Sicily-Antalya Street Food Festival.

Antalya Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal said that the Czech-Turkish Cooperation Park, which was opened in the 'sister city' Prague 6 in the Czech Republic, will also be opened in Muratpaşa on the basis of 'reciprocity'. Uysal said, "We will open a similar park in Muratpaşa at the Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, which we will organize in October."

The "Memory Places and Cultural Heritage - Antalya Kaleiçi Houses" project, which was carried out by Muratpaşa Municipality in Antalya and brought the history of Kaleiçi's daily life from the chest to the present, was introduced on Anastasia Zagorulya's Instagram account named antalyalocalguide.

International Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, which will be organized by Antalya Muratpaşa Municipality for the 9th time this year in the city's living ancient city Kaleiçi, will take place between 17-20 October.

Antalya Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal said that Antalya city tours, with their gastronomy and historical and natural beauties dating back to the ancient stone age, will take their place in the world market under the ‘municipality guarantee’.

Muratpaşa Municipality has started preparations for the 'Flower Patterns Festival', which will transform the streets and parks of Antalya into a carpet of flowers. In this colorful festival to be held in May, groups from high schools will compete to create the most beautiful flower pattern.

A similar Czech-Turkish Cooperation Park, which was opened in Prague 6 in the Czech Republic, the sister city of Muratpaşa Municipality in Antalya, will be established in Fener District. The park, located at the intersection of 1939-1940 streets, will be opened during the Kaleiçi Old Town Festival.

Muratpaşa Municipality has placed a panel in Cumhuriyet Square featuring the names of 116 cities from around the world that have participated in the Kaleiçi Old Town Festival.

Antalya Muratpaşa Mayor Ümit Uysal said at the 10th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns held in Denmark, "The place of the Republic founded by Atatürk should be within the European Union (EU)."