TOURMAG / Sonbahar 2021

Cultural Heritage
Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel
Gardens Cultural Landscape
DIYARBAKIR FORTRESS AND HEVSEL
GARDENS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
The Diyarbakir Fortress, Hevsel Gardens,
and its surrounding cultural landscape in
Eastern Turkey were added by UNESCO in
2015 as a single listing.The area has been an
important center since the Hellenistic period,
through the Roman, Sassanid, Byzantine, Islamic,
and Ottoman times to the present, the
UN agency explains.The site encompasses
the Inner castle, known as Ickale and including
the Amida Mound, and the 5.8 km-long
(3.6 miles) city walls of Diyarbakir with their
numerous towers, gates, buttresses, and 63
inscriptions.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF TROY
The legendary ancient city of Troy is located
in the western province of Canakkale and
was added to the list in 1998. Troy, with its
4,000 years of history, is one of the most
famous archaeological sites in the world,
according to UNESCO.In scientific terms, its
extensive remains are the most significant
Archaeological Site of Troy
demonstration of the first contact between
the civilizations of Anatolia and the Mediterranean
world.The siege of Troy by Spartan
and Achaean warriors from Greece in the
13th or 12th century BC, immortalized by Homer
in the Iliad, has inspired great creative
artists throughout the world ever since.
APHRODISIAS
Added by UNESCO in 2017, the archaeological
site of Aphrodisias in present-day southwestern
Turkey comprises of a temple to the Greek
Aphrodisias
goddess Aphrodite that dates from the third
century BC, along with a city constructed
a century later.“The wealth of Aphrodisias
came from the marble quarries and the art
produced by its sculptors”, adds UNESCO. The
city streets are arranged around several large
civic structures, which include temples, a
theatre, an agora, and two bath complexes.
HIERAPOLIS-PAMUKKALE
Pamukkale, a natural landmark known for
its mineral-rich thermal waters and white
travertine terraces, has long been a major
tourist attraction in southwestern Turkey and
was added to the list in 1988.“It is an unreal
landscape, made up of mineral forests,
petrified waterfalls and a series of terraced
basins”, according to UNESCO.The adjacent
site of Hierapolis was established at the
end of the second century BC by the Attalid
kingdom as a thermal spa. The ruins of the
baths, temples, and other Greek monuments
can be seen at the site.
Hierapolis-Pamukkale
62 Ekim / Kasım / Aralık | 2021
October / November / December