Though it has had many different names over the ages, Istanbul has been continually inhabited for more than 3,000 years. Since the beginning, it has been ruled by a number of nations and ethnic groups, and its strategic location near the Black Sea has made it one of the area’s cultural, artistic, and economic hubs …
What is today the largest resort on the Turkish Riviera was founded on a rocky piece of coast by a King of Pergamon in the 2nd century BCE as a harbour for his powerful fleet. In the centuries before, cities had cropped up nearby, all over the ancient Pamphylia region, some falling to Alexander the …
Backed by cotton and wheat fields, this mid-sized tourist resort on Turkey’s Aegean Coast takes its name from Didyma, an Ancient Greek sanctuary. Didyma has a 2,300-year-old Temple of Apollo in a fantastic state of preservation and linked to the ancient city of Miletus, a few to the north, by a “Sacred Way”. You don’t …
People have lived in this town on a natural harbour in the Turkish Riviera for as long as 5,000 years. Fethiye was once Telmessos, part of ancient Lycia, a confederation of independent city-states. The Lycians were known for their unique burial habits, and have left behind 2,500-year-old sarcophagi in the streets of Fethiye, and marvellous …
The resort of Kuşadası on the Turish Aegean is as multifaceted as a holiday destination can get. You’ve got the universal joys of long sandy beaches, countless restaurants, dreamy views, family water parks and golden sunsets. But minutes away is the famous ancient city of Ephesus, which was a Roman provincial capital and has left …
At the head of a bay encircled by high wooded hills is the resort of Marmaris. To give you a sense of how much this place has taken off in the last 50 years, the population was just 3,000 in the 1960s and now swells to more than 250,000 in the summer. For good reason …
This sleek resort is squeezed against the Gulf of Antalya by the dark slopes of the Taurus Mountains. The scenery is defined by a 250-metre-high promontory, sticking out into the Mediterranean and fortified since time immemorial. In Alanya, your days will be spent lazing on an enticing beach and adventuring through those lofty castle ruins, …
The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was built in what is now the modern resort of Bodrum on the Aegean Sea. In Medieval times marble and polished stone from that vast monument were reused for a castle by the Knights Hospitaller, and a lot of the masterful sculpture …
Turkey’s largest city is a huge, buzzing metropolis, an architectural wonder and without a doubt, a cultural gem. The hustle and bustle of daily life will most definitely keep you entertained but as with all big cities, may also wear you out. The good news is that Istanbul is ideally located nearby to some of …