Eastern Turkey

If Turkey is commonly considered as the crossroads of two continents and several civilisations, its Eastern part is the obvious frontier. With its high massif with spectacular relieves, it is geographically profoundly different of the other part of the country by its landscapes. Moreover all here announces the transition towards other worlds where time, relationship with nature and power, the way of existing do not have the same meaning than everywhere else. However, in spite of their low demographic density, the hamlets conserve their life style and their traditions.

In this area everything is in sublime juxtaposition with one another, times and landscapes coexist hand in hand

 harmoniously: remains of Ourartean, Roman and Persian civilisations, Armenian monasteries, Seldjuk mosques and caravanserais, cities with Arabic atmosphere... like a parenthesis out of time, in a cosmopolitan country. Churches and monasteries built everywhere here and there, are the witnesses of the intense development of the Christianity like nowhere else. Great builders of churches the Armenians left many monuments especially in the town of Ani the old Armenian capital. In every big cities of the sultanate many monuments were numerously erected as mosques with finely carved minarets, medressas and mausoleums. The East of Turkey has the greatest concentration of buildings of the seldjuk period... An opportunity of discovering which no one should miss.