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…
Turkey and its tourism potential
Turkey is a very attractive country for tourists. Both domestic and foreign tourists have everything they want in order to have a nice time at any time. Cultural tourism is one of the most preferrable tourism branches in the world. A few countries are suitable for cultural tourism. Turkey is one of those countries due…
Happy new year in 2020
We are leaving 2019 in 3 days and we will be in 2020. As we mentioned before, tourism is one of the key sectors of Turkish economy. Due to the new archeological discoveries, Turkey is getting more valuable for world tourism. More values we get, more worthvisiting Turkey becomes. The reason why a tourist comes…
UNESCO World Heritage Temprorary List; New places from Turkey
Turkey has many archeological treasures. This is the fact but a few of them are in world heritage lists. Some of them were added to this list in 2019. One of them is Bodrum Castle which is served as Underwater Archeological Museum in present. The castle has 500 year history and it was used as…
Merry Christmas
Christmas reminds Santa Claus, Santa Claus reminds christmas. Demre was the place where St.Claus’ story existed. Although it is known that St.Claus lived on the north pole, in fact Demre (Antaly) was the place where St.Claus lived. The priest of Demre was so good that he tried to meet the needs of the poor people…
Mud for health
Turkish landscape offers us many opportunities for health and beauty. Before this article, we mentioned on spring waters and doctor fishes. But there is something else that is as important as them; mud baths. Especially on spa regions, mud is applied on the visitors in order to discover the natural beauty. Mud baths were also…