Anywhere in the world you will not meet such variety of crops, as in Asia Minor. Hetty, urarty, frigijtsy, lidijtsy and other people have abandoned after themselves temples, tombs, theatres, churches, bridges, aqueducts, caravans-sheds, medrese, mosques and palaces.
Almost each travel across Turkey begins with Istanbul. The former capital Byzantian and Ottoman empire already in itself merits visitation. Among places of interest of the City on two continents - cathedral Ajja Sofia, Chorus church, underground palaces-water basins, the rests of the byzantian strong hold, mosque Bajazida, Selima, Ahmed (the Blue mosque), an archaeological museum with Alexander the Great sarcophagus and others.
the Present miracle of light in Istanbul - a palace Top burl. This huge palace complex really paradise beauty was once the vital centre of Ottoman empire. Officially it was called as a palace of Gun gate. It costs at-sight the Greek city of Vizanty. In top burl - assemblage of the spout, murmuring brooks, parks, pavilions, flower beds. All together makes impression, what is effected quite often by Muslim architecture, paradise on land.
the Majority of architectural monuments of the most different epoch is had in the Asian part of Turkey. The Egejsky coast involves with ancient ruins of Troy, Pergamum, Ephesus, Miletus! 3552image, Prisny and Didymiums. In 6 km from Dardanelless, on plain on which leaks Kju-gjuk-Menderes, hill Hizarlyk (a serf hill) on which Henry Shliman, has detected the rests of ancient Troy towers.
In 260 km to the south from Tuz lake the city of Konja is had. It is famous for monuments seldzhukskoj epoch. Mosques, medrese, monasteries spinning dervishej - mevlevi, tombs of plumes, caravans-sheds - all is stood in strict style.
Nearby to a city ruins of the Pergamum which has given to the ancient world parchment, and well-known for the temple Asklepija lay. Near to Izmir ruins of other city of an antiquity - Ephesus, native land Geraklita Efessky. Under the legend, this city was built by amazons. Ephesus was famous also for that in him there was one of seven miracles of light - Artemis's burnt by the Fame-thirsty person the temple. About Ephesus, in Papaja Kapulu, there is a dwelling in which, according to Christian ecclesiasts, Sacred Maria has spent last days.
In the south Izmir vilajeta small port Borrus is had. In an antiquity on its place there was a well-known city of Galikarnas - the native land of the father of history Gerodota. Here placed galikarnassky the mausoleum, also one of seven miracles of light. In the Middle Ages this city was a base station of crusaders. From those times the strong hold was saved.
Cappadocia - the ancient name of locality in Average Anatolys. The world popularity it is obliged to a complex of cave churches which formed here about 412 years of our era. Churches, berthing spaces, underground courses were arranged with outlet boxes in ostantsah weatherings, the arabesque rocks giving to this locality extra-terrestrial shape.
