Category: Central Anatolia Region

AVANOS The charming town of Avanos, on the banks of the Kizilirmak River, displays attractive vernacular architecture and is known for its handicrafts. Every August the town hosts an Art and Tourism Festival where a creative and friendly atmosphere pervades. Pottery is the most popular handicraft and it is usually possible to try your hand […]

ORTAHISAR On the Nevsehir – Urgup road you can’t miss Ortahisar and its rock carved fortress. The churches in the Balkan Valley are some of the oldest in the Goreme region. In the neighboring Hallac Valley, the Hallac Monastery displays decorations from the 10th and the 11th centuries. North of Ortahisar, the Kizilçukur Valley is […]

CAPPADOCIA DAILY TOUR     URGUP Urgup, a lively tourist center at the foot of a rock riddled with old dwellings, serves as an excellent base from which to tour the sights of Cappadocia. In Urgup itself you can still see how people once lived in homes cut into the rocks. If you wish to […]

CAPPADOCIA DAILY TOUR Turkish Travel’s Cappadocia daily tour will start with Dervent. Here you’ll examine the preformation of fairy chimneys. Zelve Open Air Museum that one of the best places as a must to see as well as Goreme National Park, Pasabag where the row material for pottery can be found, proceed for Avanos worldwide […]

NEVSEHIR   The road to Nevsehir and Cappadocia passes through Hacibektas, the town where Haci Bektas Veli settled and established his Bektas Sufi order in the 14th century. The dervishes who followed the sect’s tenets of love and humanism were housed in the monastery which includes a mausoleum and mosque. The complex is now a […]

SIVAS Sivas, an important commercial center stood, during the Middle Ages, at the junction of the caravan routes to Persia and Baghdad. Between 11 42 and 11 71 it was the capital of the Danigmend Emirs and a vitally important urban center during Seljuk rule. The remaining architectural monuments reflect Sivas’s former prominent position. The […]

TOKAT Tokat, also on the Yesilirmak river, has many Seljuk and Ottoman monuments which lend a picturesque yet solemn aesthetic to the cityscape. Among the main historical buildings are the ruins of a 28 towered castle, the 11 th century Garipler Mosque and a Seljuk bridge. The 13th century Pervane Bey Darussifasi (Gok Medrese), one […]

AMASYA   Set in a narrow gorge of the Yesilirmak (Iris) River, Amasya dates from the third century B.C. The ruins of the citadel – inside of which an Ottoman Palace and a secret underground passageway remain – rise from the craggy rock. Hewn into rock above the city impressive Roman rock tombs are lit […]

ALACAHOYUK Alacahöyük, north of Bogazkale on the road to Corum, was the center of the flourishing Hattian culture during the Bronze Age. The magnificent Hattian gold and bronze objects in the Museum of Anatolian Civilization in Ankara were found in the Royal Tombs of this period. All the standing remains at Alacahoyuk, however, such as […]

BOGAZKALE (HITTITE SITE) All the major early Hittite sites lie in the province of Corum in Bogazkale National Park, between Yozgat and the city of Corum. Impressive double walls, in which are set the Royal Gate, the Lion Gate and the Yer Kapi (an underground tunnel), ring the Hittite city of Hattusas, known today as […]