Turkey is a country that a tourist can find everything. For example the historical background is so wide that we can find traces of those periods. We can come across the ancient sites that witnessed history such as Miletos, Ephesus and Troy. The archeaologists discovered big treasures and items. So big stories are told. The…
Medusa: The Goddess that turns you to stone
Small Asia is a landscape that hosted many Greek Gods and Godnesses. No doubt none of them is more effective than Medusa. She could turn you to stone by a look. So her look was so dangerous that her busts were inversed. Medusa’s story includes drama and tragedy. A beautiful girl became a monster because…
Channel Istanbul: A disaster for Istanbul
Channel Istanbul is the project in the agenda of government. It is a project that will create problems for Istanbul. Firstly this project will make an island and it is going to create geographical issues. Then the other issues will follow. Tourism is one of the sectors that will harm from these issues. As we…
European Union; An important market for Turkish tourism
European Union is one of the important unions of the world at the present time. It is one of the developed unions of developed countries. So tourism becomes one of the major economic activities. Europe is the oldest continent of the world with Asia. So history has traces in this continent. Also European citizens are…
Turkey is home of multi-cultural and various habitants
Turkey is a country where you can come across multi-cultural envoirement. There are a few places in the world. That’s why they are more attractive for tourism sector. The oldest ancient sites are here, the civilization developed here. The scientific branches such as philosophy and medicine had masters. Bergama was one of the asclepions in…
Medical science in ancient Small Asia
Medical science was the developed scientific branch in Small Asia. Human being always searches the way of living longer and to cure the illness’. It was the same in the past. The ancient societies of Small Asia tried to find way in order to keep the society healthy. Thanks to the wealthness of natural source,…
Miniaturk; A mini museum of ancient structures
A museum was established in Istanbul. Mini models of famous structures are exhibited in open field. Those are the most famous structures of the world and Turkey including Bosphorus Bridge and Atatürk Olympic Stadium of Istanbul. It was established on the coast of Golden Horn. It is open everyday and all of the structures including…
Handycraft of Glass; A decorative handycraft
Glass is one of the natural substances that are used to manufacture some decorative items. The coloured glass objects are the most preferrable items for decoration. It is a special sort of manufacture as a handycraft. Various items such as lighting objects and decorative dishes are very famous. Every object can be manufactured with glass…
Wind Mills of Çeşme
Wind mills are the traditional tools for ancient times. We know that Holland is famous for wind mills but the mills above are in Çeşme district of İzmir. Also we can see similiar wind mills in Greece. Aegean islands have similiar cultures as Turkey so we can come across the same windmills on the both…
Temples of ancient world
Some ancient sites of Anatolia have deep meanings for the belief and religious history. The ancient sites such as Göbeklitepe give us priceless hints on belief. The figures of columns describe us what they worshipped. The structural base makes us think that this is a structure that can gather many people. Also those temples are…