The School of Tourism of Antalya’s Bilim University will have a new course on Cultural Routes as part of its Spring 2022 semester curriculum. Here is the message from Dinç Saraç, a member of the school: ‘Tourism education should be dynamic and receptive to change; on the back of basic theoretical, technical and operational topics,…
Second phase of our VOYN! project, which is a local culture hub under the “VAHA: Building Common Ground for Spaces of Public Discussion & Dialogue” programme, has just started in the last months. We aim to chase the rural cultural heritage of the Antalya region via several activities; and this year we have an international…
The Anatolian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage project, funded by the EU and with the partnership of WEGlobal, Gaziantep Greater City Council and he Culture and Tourism Ministry, held a conference to mark the formation of the institute of the same name. The institute is designed to bring together the works of the Turkish archaological schools…
The Byzantine monasteries above Demre have always been something of a mystery. How did so many monasteries of such quality construction manage to exist in such a small area? Who funded and endowed them? Where did the monks come from? The question is to some extent answered in the hagiography of St Nicholas of Sion,…