Worldwide famous geography and discovery channel National Geographic prepared a list of sightseeing places in the world. Some of them are in Turkey. Actually they are well known places but it may surprise you. This is the list; St.Sophia- Istanbul Sumela Monastery- Trabzon The cradle of civilizations- Mardin Göbeklitepe ancient site – Şanlıurfa Spice Market…
Magicians were here..
We know that magic was one of the most common social way to curse someone or something in ancient period. A stone that was carved a magic was unearthed. It seems that it is a vicious magic. It is so important that it was hidden for a long time. Southeastern Anatolia hides different sorts of…
A new ancient site in Southeastern of Turkey
As we mentioned before, Turkish landscape is a great place for archeaologists to discover new things and sites. Last discovery in Southeastern of Turkey lights up a new period of widening Hittites. A new ancient site that was ruined by Hittites 3500 years ago was unearthed. The archeaological items proved us that Sam’al ancient site…
Turkish tourism had good statics in 2019
Turkey is overcoming the crisis that rocked the world. The most important signal of this theory is to have good statics in 2019. The sight-seeing places of Turkey were visited by millions of tourists. There are some sight-seeing places that were visited mostly below; 1.Hierapolis 2. Ephesus 3. Cappadocia 4.Kaymaklı Underground city 5. Troian Ancient…
Frozen Waterfall;Ava Ore waterfall
Winter prepares nice panoramas in Turkey. Turkish landscape has many beautiful natural sceneries including waterfalls. Eastern region of Turkey gets so cold that water resources are frozen in winter. Ava Ore waterfall of Hakkari gets frozen and creates nice sceneries.
St.Sophia: the most visited sight seeing place of 2019
Ministry of Tourism declared that St.Sophia is the most visited sight seeing place of Turkey in 2019. It is so impresive that it is still influcing the human being. St.Sophia is the most important praying facility and museum of the world. Nobody can deny it, so Byzantines were aware that they built a church that…
Statics of 2019 in Turkey
Ministry of Tourism declared the tourism statics of 2019. Those are the details; Foreign countries that were imported tourists; Bulgaria Germany Georgia Provinces in Turkey that were visited; Istanbul Antalya Edirne The official foreign tourists are 2.147.878.
Coloured leather kerchief ; A handcraft that never dies
Those coloured flat-heeled shoes are the products of a great handcraft. It was a light shoe that can be worn in summer. The leather is coloured by the occer or madder. This handycraft requires expertisement and mastership because it is based on hand skill. Today it is living in our southern part of Turkey (Kahramanmaraş).…
Woodcarving: A handycraft that gives the wood spirit
Woodcarving can be considered as a special handycraft because a master has a task to give wood a spirit. It is known that it is a very old handycraft that is dated back to ancient times. When the ancient buildings are examined, a specialist see a master work on the wood. The master gave a…
Filigree: A handycraft that symbolizes the beauty
Since the human being has been developed, some concepts have developed in the same way such as beauty. Especially by women, beauty has a deep meaning and some handycrafts serve the beauty with great pieces. Filigree is one of those handycrafts that arised in Mesopotamia region. It is based on manufacturing beautiful silver and gold…