Turkey Tourism

Dolmabahce Palace » Distance: 8 km. Located along the coast of the Bosphorus in Beşiktaş, 300 yards from the Beşiktaş ferry-boat quay, this palace is the grandest imperial Ottoman residence. It was constructed by the Armenian architects Karabet and Nikogos Balyan for Sultan Abdülmecid (1839-61) who, preferring a more modern residence, decided to move out [...]

LITERATURE Haldun TANER Literature has long been an important component of Turkish cultural life, reflecting the history of the people, their legends, their mysticism, and the political and social changes that affected this land throughout its long history. The oldest literary legacy of the pre-Islamic period are the Orhon inscriptions in northern Mongolia, written in [...]

The Cistern One Thousand and One Columns » Distance: 400 m. The cistern is located to the west of the Hippodrome. It was recently cleaned and connected with a gallery to the side street. Now the cistern, measuring 64 by 56 meters, is an easily accessible, interesting and beautiful site to visit. Binbirdirek was built [...]

Beylerbeyi Palace » Distance: 15 km. Situated along the banks of the Asian side of the Bosphorus in the district of Beylerbeyi, this palace complex consists of the main palace building plus five pavilions (Köşk). The architect Sarkis Balyan, the brother ol ilit architects responsible for the Dolmabahçe Palace, built this modern palace for Sultan [...]

Mosaics Museum » Distance: 100 m. This museum, opened to the public in 1953, consists of the remains of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Empire built by Constantine the Great (324-337). Excavated in 1935, these remains consist of mosaics, columns and other architectural pieces which had once been part of the Great Palace. Part [...]

The Spice Bazaar » Distance: 3 km. The Spice Bazaar, the second largest covered market in the city, was part of the mosque complex. Other surviving parts of the complex are the tombs and the magnificent fountain. On the mosque side of the L-shaped Spice Bazaar, there is a popular flower market and cafes, and [...]

Think of the sun to hit the jackpot. Culture vultures do, too. And shoppers and fun lovers and treatment. This corner of Turkey ticks all the right holiday boxes. ” It ‘difficult to prove, that the holidays on the Aegean coast of Turkey is about. The reason for the west coast of the peninsula is [...]

Before the Byzantine Empire Excavations conducted at Yarımburgaz cave have uncovered evidence of human culture in the region of Küçükçekmece Lake. Collective inhabitation of Istanbul, which would later become one of the most crowded cities in the world, dates back to the Sixth Millennium B.C.E. These societies inhabited caves on both the European and Anatolian [...]

Two meters under the narrow streets of Bodrum lies 5000 years of history. A few monuments attest to this history: the castle, the Roman Theatre, the Gate and the Mausoleum Myndus. The city was captured by the Lydians in the first half of the 6th century BC and then by the Persians in 546 BC [...]