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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,…
A volunteer group worked for 6 weeks in September and October, and waymarked about 150km of trails – most of the St Nicholas network of routes, plus parts of the Lycian Way near Demre. The St Nicholas network was set up in 2014, but was not well-publicised and maintained, so has had very few users….
I’m a friend of Ueli Aellig from Switzerland and a fellow teacher at a Business School here in Winterthur. Ueli has passed away on October 6th after a short time in the Alzheimer section of an Old Folks Home. Remembering him in a ceremony on November 15th I will tell the people about the great time…