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ISTANBUL
A city with all the startling contrast of Eourope and Asia.Is a festival of kaleidoscopic colors,ancient architecture and modern luxuries.Among many crest mosques,is The Blue mosque with its six minarets just acroos a courtyard and millennium from the Byzantine Church of St.Sophia.Shop at the Grand Bazaar and see the only cast iron church in existence.Your heart will be captured by a sense of eternity.
ANKARA
Ankara, the capital of Turkey,holds the richest collection of Early Bronze Age,Urartian and Hittite finds in the world.At the famous Anatolian Civilisation Museum you will find artifact chronologically ordered from Paleolithic to Classical Age and Roman times.The impressive early Hittite sites of Yazılıkaya and Alacahöyük are only 2 hours from Ankara.
İZMİR
Birthplace of Homer.Final resting place of the Virgin Mary in Selçuk.Here the echoes of ancient civilisations live side-by side with some of the most fabulous hotels anywhere.Along our lyrical Aegean coastline,you will discover ancient sites such as Troy,Pergamon,Aphrodisias,Didyma and of cours the ruins of Ephesus declared by St.Paul as "the most beautiful city in the world".
ANTALYA
Here in our Mediterranean paradise of rocky coves and private beaches, you will find cafes, boutiques and holiday pleasures nestled among 2000 years of Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman art and architecture. Bring your walking shoes to visit the sites of Xanthos, Olympos, Phaselis, Termessos, Perge and Aspendos.
CAPPADOCIA
You have never seen a landspace quite as strange as the fairy chimneyz nature carved out volcanic rock 3 million years ago. The Hittites settled here in 4000 BC. Later, Byzantines built undergraund cities seven stories below the earth, which bore spectaculer frescoes and in-door plumbing. You will feel at once suspended in time and space.
EASTERN ANATOLIA
The legendary part of where remains of Assyrian, Urartian, Seljuk and Ottoman empires await you. Looking up to snow-capped Mount Ararat you will see the spot where Noah's Are came to rest. Just south of Trabzon, shrouded in could and perched on acliff is the Sümela Monastery.
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