Once part of the coastline Bafa Lake was cut off from the sea with the movements of the Menderes River valley. The Besparmak – ‘five finger’ – Mountain towers over the lake. In history this was Mount ...
Bodrum Castle or to give it its proper name the Castle of St Peter stands in the centre of town on the peninsula overlooking the twin bays. Its history is bound up with Tamerlane and the Crusader Knig...
Close to the modern beach resort of Altinkum lies the temple ‘city’ of Didyma. On the southern frontiers of Ionia Didyma was less a city and more a vast temple complex whose priests who watched over t...
Miletus was over the years home to several great historical scholars such as Thales, Anaximenes and Hippodamus, It is an ancient city, believed to be the oldest of the Ionian League and was always a g...
One of the Greek cities of the Menderes (Meander) River valley, Priene has occupied two locations close to each other and at its oldest dates to 1000BCE. Laid out on a grid pattern with all main roads...
