About
Who are we?
We are a small Turkish not-for-profit society. Our members make and maintain long distance walking, biking and horse-riding routes. The society protects old roads, markets Turkish culture routes and helps villagers along the routes benefit from them.
Committee and members
Our committee includes the creators of the finest walking routes in Turkey. Our members include trekking guides, travel agencies, accommodation providers, archaeologists, historians, nature-lovers and people interested in Turkish village culture.
Products and services
To help you use our routes, we produce and sell guide-books, maps and iphone apps. We also list all our member agencies tours on the site (see tours) and will advise you about your adventure by mail, by phone or at our drop-in centre in Antalya .
Practical way to help
The society relies on help from enthusiastic volunteers either with individual projects or in our office. Read more about our how you can help. If you like our work and want to contribute, you can become a member or make a donation.News
As regular newsleter readers know, CRS is curretly implementing an EU Civil Society Dialogue V project called ‘Italy, Greece and Turkey on Foot’. A management meeting at Nilüfer, Bursa, brought the team members from Italy, Albania, Greece and Turkey together to share ideas and progress on the project. The meeting took place in the pretty…
We all know that nature is forever changing and because of this the Lycian Way must also adapt. Feedback from our own staff, other hikers and locals allows us to constantly remain updated on the state of the trail, and make improvements where needed. Recently, we had been made aware that due to two fires,…
Click to read the full press release in pdf format. PRESS RELEASE Turkey is preparing to apply for the registration of a cultural route at the Council of Europe! On July 4th 2019, representatives from Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Cultural Routes Society (CRS), met in İstanbul with the European Institute of Cultural…
Faralya Nature Tourism Development Society FARDER, has submitted a project for the gelecekturizmde grant program, funded by Anadolu Efes and managed by the Culture and Tourism Ministry and UNDP. The title of the project is Faralya – Yediburun – Eco-tourism Development project, and it concerns spreading the good practises developed in Faralya along the Lycian…
Via Eurasia, a route developed in the framework of the project ‘Italy, Greece and Turkey on Foot’ under the ‘Civil Society Dialogue V’ programme was presented at the annual Council of Europe Cultural Routes Training Academy. The presentation was conduced by Ms Elena Dubinina, Head of the Management Committee and was positively met by public….
Study visit in Italy is over with the participation of project stakeholders from Turkey and Italy together with our partners; EAVF and Trace Your Eco. First day started with a degustation of local bread in Monte Sant’Angelo and ended with a walk around the center of this beautiful South Italian town, which also has the Unesco…
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Click to read the full press release in pdf format. PRESS RELEASE Certifying and Promoting a Cultural Route Between Europe and Turkey Turkey’s Culture Routes Society (CRS), an NGO that was founded to develop, maintain and promote cultural routes in Turkey, is preparing to apply to the Council of Europe to obtain certification for the…