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With its deep blue sea, long sandy beaches, charming harbor full of fishing boats, healing thermal springs, natural beauties and cultural riches, Dikili is one of the most beautiful places to visit around İzmir. The town, which is 120 km away from the city center of Izmir,... Continue Reading

Sunset at Kordon The rettlements of the phaetons, boats’ whistles, the steady summer wind… Red silhouettes at the sunsets, palm trees rising to the clouds… How can one describe Izmir? It’s more than an Anatolian city, a strong Aegean city, the history... Continue Reading

1. Perperene Antique City The ancient city of Kozak Plateau located at the Gebilir Kayasi site of Aşağıbeyköyü houses a temple, a bath, an amphitheater and two fortifications. The city, which is thought to be a bishopric center in the Byzantine period, is one of the places to be... Continue Reading

Kozak Plateu 20 km. away from Pergamon offers perhaps the greenest and clearest landscapes of the region. As far as the road crossing the Kozak Plateu climbs, the pine trees on both sides of the road become more and more thick. The pine trees are so high, so big that this... Continue Reading

Pergamon, The abundance of Bakırçay… All the significant port and commercial cities of the ancient world had beed set up over the deltas where the rivers fall into the seas. Thus the Antique Milet had been set up at the mouth of Menderes River, Ephesus had been set up over... Continue Reading

Sun time at Siren Rocks… In fact, the Islands of Foça occupy an important place in the world tourism with the seals and Siren Rocks. The Islands of Foça, the home of the Mediterranean seals called “monachus-monachus” whose number doesn’t exceed 400 over... Continue Reading

Embracing the sea in Dikili… Dikili situated to the west of Anatolia lies at the coasts where the sun sets perhaps in the most decisive way. The exciting colour mixture joins to the silence of Dikili and the night covers silently the surface of the sea… Dikili 120 km.... Continue Reading

Waking up in Şirince… Slipping out of the historical atmosphere of Selçuk and going to the village of Şirince located 8 km away over a hill covered with the olive trees means to open the doors of a very different world. The village, and old Greek settlement was evacuated... Continue Reading

The matrimonial societies of Anatolia respected the woman and created goddesses symbolising “the woman and the mother”. This faith originating from Amazons and propagating engendered the creation of many sacred sites, monuments and statues of goddesses. “The... Continue Reading

The Artemis Temple mentioned among the 7 wonders of the world had been the biggest and the most magnificient marble building of that era. The temple considered as “the first monument” among the architectural edifices of the Antique age had a height of 350 m. and a... Continue Reading