The monumental plane trees on Uçmakdere’s coast hang over the sea like umbrellas. There are pensions, restaurants, buffets, and a camping area on the coast where you can set up tents. Tekel’s Güzel Marmara Wine Factory is also here. The locals proudly say, “Our air comes after Altınoluk, there is no pollution, people can live here just with the air and water.”

According to the ruins, the history of the village dates back quite a bit. A marble piece resembling a sarcophagus with a double-headed eagle engraving and the date 1865, a cistern used in the production of beverages in the garden of a building once used as a winery, writings engraved in Greek alphabet on brick and wooden Greek houses, an inscription at the fountain at the village entrance, large iron consoles holding the roof of the grocery opposite the coffeehouse, a wooden ceiling medallion with leaf motifs – all provide a historical atmosphere.

The village’s name in Greek is “Avdimio,” meaning “pleasant place.” While the Greeks used the name Avdimio, the local Turkish Yörüks called Uçmakdere “Avdin.” It was a significant wine production center during the Greek period. According to a photo taken in 1918, there were about 500 households in the village, most of which were three-story and glass-fronted. The village had a church, a holy spring, a Greek cemetery, wooden bridges, lamps in every street, giant mirrors at intersections where carts could see each other, and cellars under every house that could hold tons of wine, as narrated by visiting Greeks.