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Tourism
Places to visit
Castle of Aleppo
Hi everyone I'm from Syria from turkey. Today I am going to talk about the
castle of Aleppo.
The castle of Aleppo is medieval. It is also the largest castle in Syria. It's about
1,476 feet long and approximately 1,066 feet wide. It's architecture and history
are amazing. In side of the castle there are a lot of stairs also a lot of art
drowning. I really like it its so beautiful. I hope one day you guys go to Aleppo
and see the castle of Aleppo but when the war stops in Syria and everything
comes back as it used to.
By – Inji Tarakji
WHAT NOT TO MISS…
The Euphrates and Tigris basin have a real Middle Eastern flavour.
Booming Gaziantep, offers world-class Roman mosaics, an atmospheric
old quarter and Turkey’s spiciest cuisine. Further east, biblical Urfa is
distinguished by its colourful bazaar and sacred pool, while
cosmopolitan Mardin overlooks the vast Mesopotamian Plain. The major
attraction, however, is a dawn or sunset trip to Nemrut Dağı’s colossal
ancient statues. Between Mardin and Nemrut Dağı, teeming, ethnically
Kurdish Diyarbakır nestles inside medieval basalt walls. The terrain
becomes increasingly mountainous towards the Iranian frontier, an area
dominated by the unearthly blue, alkaline expanse of Lake Van.
A mesmerizing mix of the exotic and the familiar, Turkey is much more
than its clichéd image of a “bridge between East and West”. Ankara,
Turkey’s capital, is a planned city whose contrived Western feel
indicates the priorities of the Turkish Republic; it also features the
outstanding Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Highlights of
surrounding North Central Anatolia include the bizarre temple of
Aezani, near Kütahya; the Ottoman museum-town of Safranbolu;
exquisitely decorated early Turkish monuments in Divriği; and
remarkable Hittite sites at Hattuşaş and Alacahöyük. As you travel
north, pause in the Yeşilırmak valley towns of Sivas, Tokat and Amasya.
The lush shoreline of the Black Sea beyond holds little more than a
chain of Byzantine-Genoese castles; the oldest, most interesting towns
are Sinop, Anatolia’s northernmost point, and Amasra. Fabled Trabzon,
east of Sinop and once the seat of a Byzantine sub-empire, is now
convenient for Aya Sofya and Sumela monasteries.
By- Eylem
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