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Saray Beach Hotel located on the Cleopatra Beach which is famous all over the world. We are glad to offer you a luxurious and comfortable accommodation in a pleasant atmosphere that meets your holiday dreams.
Our pool is surrounded by the typical Mediterranean trees, and has a lovely atmosphere which enables you to enjoy with the [...]
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Alanya was founded in the second century BC by the pirate Diadotis Tryphon (the lecher). Under Pompeius the pirates nest was defeated and razed to the ground. I won’t bore you with the rest of its history, it was Roman for a while, then Armenian, then Seljuk and from 1471 on Ottoman.
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The great Camlica Hill stands about four kilometers east of Uskudar and can be reached by car. It is the taller of the twin peaks of Mount Bulgurlu, the highest point in the vicinity of Istanbul, 267 meters above sea level. It has a small teahouse in the midst of the pine grove which gives [...]
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Ephesus is discovered in Selcuk, Izmir in western Turkey.
Kusadasi is 19 km. far away from Ephesus and Pamucak beach is 5 km far away from Ephesus.
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Built in the 6th century during the reign of Emperor Justinianus, the most prosperous period of the East Roman Empire, the Basilica Cistern is 70m in width and 140m in lenght and supported by 336 marble columns. In 1985 the municipality of Istanbul undertook the restoration of the cistern.
It is located near Hagia Sophia and [...]
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Blue Mosque was built on historical peninsula of İstanbul, in 1616 by Architect Sedefkar Mehmet Aga. The mosque is called “Blue Mosque” because of blue, gren and white colored Iznik chinas. When Hagia Sophia was turned into a museum from a mosque in 1934, Blue Mosque became the center mosque of İstanbul. With the complex [...]
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Beyoglu next to the Taksim Square is aan important part of modern Istanbul, it’s a great way to get away from the old city and enjoy modern Istanbul as the local people do. There is so much going on in the approximately 2,5 kilometers (1,5 mile) long street between Taksim Square and the Tünel funicular [...]
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Taksim Square is the most known modern city center of Istanbul. Many hotels and restaurants are in or near the Square and on Istiklal Street, and there is a local bus terminal for public transportation and the main subway station. Istiklal pedestrian street has many bars, night clubs and movie theaters therefore it’s always busy [...]
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Hagia Sophia was first named “Megale Ekklesia” (The Great Church) as it was the largest church in Constantinople (Istanbul today). The historian Socrates indicated that the church was named Sophia during the reign of Emperor Constantius. The name given to the church symbolized the second divine attribute of the Holy Trinity. Originally, Sophia, which means [...]
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The word “Dolmabahce” in English means “The filled garden”. Because the Dolmabahce Palace is founded upon a reclaimed area by filling up the sea. It’s a beautiful 19th C palace right by the Bosphorus, on the waterfront. It’s in baroque and rococo style and very French. Many people think that it is a small model [...]
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