Search Results

223 contents found. They are listed on 23 pages.

• 

  BALIKESİR

  Balıkesir Ayvalık Cunda Island Cunda Alibey Island Burhaniye Edremit Aegean Sea Devils Table

  In the province of Balıkesir interesting historical sites seem to harmoniously blend with nature. The mid-14th century Yıldırım Mosque, built by Beyazıt I, is the city's oldest mosque while the Zağnos Paşa Mosque, built by and named after the Grand Vizier...
• 

  Traditional Craftsmanship of Çini-Making

  Çini Çini-Making Craftsmanship UNESCO Çinicilik

  Glazed tile and ceramic household stuffs or wallboards of several colours and motifs made by firing the pulped clay soil are called "çini". Çini-making means the craftsmanship shaped around traditional Turkish art of çini since 12th century with its own s...
• 

  ADANA

  Adana Çukurova Ceyhan River Taşköprü Adana Kebab

  While history buffs can enjoy exploring the ruins of ancient cities, nature-lovers find repose breathing the cool, clean air in the Taurus Mountains. Set in the heart of the Çukurova (Cilician) Plain, Turkey’s fourth largest city Adana has a history that ...
• 

  Ebru

  Ebru Art of Ebru UNESCO Marbling

  Ebru is the traditional art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling and brushing color pigments on a pan of oily water and then transforming this pattern to a special paper. It has been a traditional art of book enriching calligraphy and binding books...
• 

  AKSARAY

  Aksaray Silk Road Ihlara Valley Mount Hasandağı

  A stop on the Silk Road with countless trails of diverse religions addressing hearts and minds of believers. Aksaray, with its riches including the Ihlara Valley, spots for faith tourism, underground cities, Salt Lake, Mount Hasandağı, ancient cities and ...
• 

  BATMAN

  Batman Hasankeyf Silk Road Malabadi Bridge Mesopotamia Hısn Keyfa Dicle River Tigris

  Batman, a museum-like city, is home to the ancient Hasankeyf- a priceless iconic treasure at the Tigris River. The archaeological excavations which have taken place at the Hallan Çemi Mound in the county of Kozluk near Batman have unearthed various orname...
• 

  ANAVARZA

  Anavarza Adana Anazarbus UNESCO Dioscorides

  According to available knowledge the history of the ancient city Anavarza (Anazarbus) goes back to 2100 years, and it has reached its zenith in the 2nd century BC when it was awarded by the Roman Emperor Septimus Severus. Anavarza rapidly developed and be...
• 

  HATAY

  Hatay Antakya Mosaic İskenderun Alexandretta Samandağ Monastery of St. Simon Daphne Apollo Harbiye

  Mosaics adding an aura of great value to a centre where all faiths meet together with a culinary art worth exploring. Hatay is an inexhaustible treasure house of history and a centre of civilization. The evidence of the earliest settlement extends back as...
• 

  BARTIN

  Bartın Amasra Çakraz Sesamos Parthenios İnkum Troy

  Parthenios of ancient times, Bartın impresses visitors with its timbered houses that reflect a different artistic taste. Bartın, Parthenios of ancient times, is a pretty city full of timbered houses that holds a strawberry festival every year in the sprin...
• 

  BALAT AND FENER

  Fener Balat Haliç Golden Horn Religion İstanbul Synagogue

  The estuary, Haliç in Turkish, was called as the Golden Horn by the Byzantines. According to legend it was formed by the thrust of Io’s horns that was transformed into a heifer by Zeus. Another legend relates that the plentiful palamut fish (Atlantic boni...