SOUTHERN & EASTERN ANATOLIA
“Oriental” will be your first thought when you see the buildings and the historical places. Even though the vibrant atmosphere, this section will give a great mysterious feelings o you. These lands were called as a “garden of Aden” and you must have more then 4 gigabyte memory-card for your camera. How many time can you see the heaven?
MARDIN
This mystic city of yellow cut-stone houses will feed your soul with its aura and ambiance. Because of its location, city visited by the travelers and Caravans and they all left their cultural remarks and you can trace that both in their history and foods.
URFA (HARRAN)
Edessa was the old name of the city, a birth place of Abraham, and with Harran it was subjected in Holy Books. With great oriental influence, city has many places to visit. Harran, which is an hour away district, is still fighting with modern times and standing with cone-shape houses and great Castle.
NEMRUT
Antiochus a Seleucid King wanted that to remember in the future and as a consequence he decided to sit and watch the sun rise and down with his Gods and Goddess forever.
ZEUGMA
Antique Hellenistic rooted city adorned in Roman time. It was at the side of Euphrates and today, you can see one of the bests base-mosaics moved to Gaziantep archeology Museum for exhibition.
ANTAKYA ARCHEOLOGY MUSEUM
It is count as the second biggest mosaic and third biggest coins collection on the world. Items of the museum brought all around the city belonging to Hittites to Roman Periods.
ANTAKYA SAINT PETER'S CAVE CHURCH
Turkey constantly inhabited by great civilizations from Neolithic ages till now. For that reason culture is just like a thick wall consists of different size and shape of stones.
Titus and Vespasian Tunnel
A fine example of the sophisticated engineering of the ancients… As suggested by the name, this tunnel was built under the reigns of the Roman emperors Titus and Vespasian. Despite the evident lack of creativity in giving it a name, the tunnel is a really impressive example of Roman engineering, designed to divert the waters that constantly threatened to flood the town of Seleucia. This is a task it performed admirably for centuries, and you can still see how today.