Fındıkpınarı is a town in Mersin Province

Mersin Province

The Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital is the city of Mersin and the other major town is Tarsus, birthplace of St Paul...

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Turkey

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Fındıkpınarı is in Mezitli district, center of which is actually in Greater Mersin

Mersin

-Mersin today:Today, Mersin is a large city spreading out along the coast, with Turkey's second tallest skyscraper , huge hotels, an opera house, expensive real estate near the sea or up in the hills, and many other modern urban...

. It is mountainous town at 36°55′N 34°22′E with an altitude of 1200 metres (3,937 ft). It is 46 kilometres (28.6 mi) from Mersin. Situated among pine forests it is a popular summer resort. (Mountain resort towns are usually called yayla

Yayla (resort)

Yayla is a name given to the summer mountain resorts in Turkey.- Etymology :Nomadic herdsmen of Turkic origin used to call their herding locations by different names depending on the season. Yazlak, yaylak, güzlek and kışlak referred to herding locations of different seasons of the year...

) Traditionally, people from Mersin used to spend their summer vacations in Fındıkpınarı. Although the yayla tradition is on the decline, the town has now a settled population of 3493 as of 2010.

On 15 December 1954, Fındıkpınar was declared village and in 1993 the village was declared township .