Cultural heritage means a lot for a country’s historical background. As we mention before every missing heritage creates big space in the history. We are in Thrace and a castle is our title. Unfortunately only a piece of gate remained today. This castle was built in East Roman (Byzantine) period. The region (Thrace) was very important in order to protect […]
Varzahan Monastery; A destroyed monastery
We all know that Turkish landscape has many monasteries and churches. Much of them have remains and they can be restored. But some of them aren’t as lucky as them such as Varzahan monastery. Varzahan Monastery was the one that was built in 12th century. It was a complex of churches. It was an Armenian style church. By the time, […]
Avnik Castle; An Urartu castle in a land of passages..
Eastern region of Turkey has a rocky territory. Despite of the high territory, there has been settlement here for centuries. Starting from Urartu State, the region has been very important as it has been a passage between Asia and West. Castle of Avnik was built in Urartu period. As it was built on the peak of a passage, it had […]