Edens of Turkey

Pamukkale (türkisch für Baumwollfestung) ist ein Dorf nahe der Stadt der Türkei Denizli im Südwest. Seinen Namen erhielt der Ort durch die beeindruckend Kalksinterterrassen, über die durch Jahrtausend kalkhaltige Thermalquellen entstanden sind und heute eine Touristenattraktion darstellen. Die Terrassen stehen auf der Liste des Weltkulturerbe der Unesco.

About eight centuries were here until the late Leto, Artemis and Apollo worshipped. The ruins of temples and other buildings, together with the remains of Xanthos since 1988 the World Cultural Heritage (World Heritage, UNESCO). The two sites in Lycia (Asia Minor, Turkey) lie about 35 km southeast of Fethiye.

Ephesus (Latin Ephesus, Ἔφεσος Greek, Turkish Efes, hittite Apaša verm) was one of the most important and oldest Greek cities of Asia Minor (now Turkey) in antiquity. Both name and initial settlement date from vorgriechischer time.
Ephesus is located approximately 70 km south of Izmir, near the western Turkish coast (Aegean) in the ancient landscape Ionia. […]

Kaunos
Kaunos was an ancient city in south-eastern countryside Caria in Asia Minor (near the present village Dalyan in Turkey). It was originally on the sea, by shifting the coast now 8 km from the sea in the delta of the river Köycegiz. Kaunos belonged to temporarily Attischen Alliance and the mainland owned by the nearby […]

Goreme is a place in Cappadocia, in the province of Nevsehir in Turkey. The place was called into the Byzantine period Matiana, then Avcılar until it in the 1980s for tourism in Goreme, originally a term for the area of the nearby cave churches, has been renamed.
The town is the centre of the National Park […]