PureTravel Reveal New Turkey Holidays Website

March 15, 2010 - PRLog -- Adventure travel company PureTravel, are delighted to unveil their latest travel website which showcases Turkey as a vacation destination. And in keeping with all of the tours on the main PureTravel website, these new trips come direct from Turkish tour operators.

Turkey lies in Western Asia and Southeastern Europe on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, and its second largest city, Ankara, is also its capital. The country is divided into seven different regions, with Ankara situated in Central Anatolia. The best holidays Turkey has to offer are those that take visitors through two or more of the provincial regions, which also include Aegean, Black Sea and Mediterranean Turkey, Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia and the Marmara region.

Ankara is home to the Museum of Anatolian Civilization, which is also known as the Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi and which contains artifacts dating back to the Paleolithic Age. The museum boasts the most comprehensive records of the Anatolian empire in existence today and is one of the city's premier attractions. Further exhibitions include those relating to the Old Hittite and Imperial Hittite periods, the Assyrian trade colonies period and the Chalcolithic Age.

The Temple of Augustus and Rome is one of Ankara's most famous archeological sites and dates back to 25BC. Visitors flock to this temple as its walls contain the most extensive and well-preserved copy of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti - an account of the deeds of Rome's Emperor Augustus - in existence today. Also known as the Monumentum Ancyranum, this temple commemorates Rome's victories in Central Anatolia and the formation of Rome's Galatian province.

Ankara's Kale Castle is a well known tourist hot-spot, and a visit to the bazaar-like conglomeration of shops that the castle contains is one of the more intense holidays Turkey can offer a tourist. Carpets and leather are among the specialty items that are for sale at the market stalls, and the area also contains countless traditional eateries. The castle was originally constructed by the Byzantines and the Galatians and has been open to tourists for centuries.
For More Information: http://www.puretravel.com/Guide/Europe/Southern_Europe/tu...

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