The village of Alacati itself is situated at the tip of the Izmir peninsula in South Western Turkey and became an Ottoman town according to some in 14th century, it is a well known fact that Alacati was a Rum (Greek) settlement area.

 The area is also considered  one of the countries most important Monk Seal sites since 1998 and the coastline around Alacati was declared a Ministry of Culture protection area some time ago, thanks mainly to the natural beauty and its untouched and undisturbed rocky shoreline.Unfortunately, it is constantly under pressure from major coastal development.

 After the defeat of  the Ottomans in the Balkans, a lot of Moslem refugees started to flow to the western coast of Anatolia. The Rums (Greeks) made a decision to leave Alacati and to settle on the island of Chios. Thousands of them sailed across to the island in small boats, although later Greece sent passenger boats to carry people across to Greece. It is said that the refugees came and settled into the houses emptied by the Rums(Greeks). 

 Most of these houses still remain  today as an attraction for people to see and absorb the feeling of life in the past.

Today Alacati consists of a great number of summer houses, of which most are only used for maybe two weeks of the year, if at all. This makes the permanent population less than what it was in 1895(13950 approx).

Alacati was designated an Important Bird area(IBA) in 1990. This is an area of 32000 hectares to protect breeding birds like the Lesser Kestrel and Cinereous Bunting.