Çanakkale Troya Museum is nominated for European Museum of the Year Award

Çanakkale Troya Museum is nominated for European Museum of the Year Award

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A historical center in the old city of Troy - presently in present-day Turkey - was shortlisted for the European Museum of the Year Award, the Turkish culture and the travel industry serve said on Dec. 6.

Opened in 2018 in the western Turkish region of Çanakkale, the Museum of Troy was shortlisted for the honor sorted out by the European Museum Forum, bolstered by the Council of Europe, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said in an announcement.

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"One of the most significant contemporary archeological historical centers on the planet, our Museum of Troy was shortlisted at the European Museum of the Year Award in 2020," Ersoy said on Twitter, sharing a photograph of the exhibition hall.

"I salute each one of the individuals who added to the exhibition hall which was named among numerous galleries," Ersoy included, additionally expressing gratitude toward Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Champ to be declared on May 2020

The champ of the European Museum of the Year Award will be declared at a service toward the finish of the yearly meeting of the European Museum Forum, which will be held in Cardiff, Wales, from April 29 to May 2, 2020.

Last March, Turkish President Erdoğan formally opened the exhibition hall, which was built as a component of a task that passed a challenge sorted out by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2013.

Among the other 61 shortlisted up-and-comers are the National Museum of Scotland, Athletic Bilbao Museum in Spain, Museum of Warsaw in Poland and the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands.

The European Museum Forum said on its site that the honor will be given to an exhibition hall that "contributes most legitimately to drawing in spectators and fulfilling its guests with an exceptional climate, creative understanding and introduction".

In 1997, the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in the Turkish capital Ankara won the European Museum of the Year Award.

The Museum of Troy is situated alongside the Troy archeological site, one of the most popular old destinations on the planet, with 4,000 years of history.

Troy was deified by the antiquated Greek writer Homer in his epic The Iliad, recounting to the tale of the most recent year of the decade-long Trojan War.

Forbes travel author pens Turkey's travel industry paradise Bozcaada

Forbes travel author pens Turkey's travel industry paradise Bozcaada

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Ann Abel, a movement journalist for the prestigious U.S.- based Forbes magazine, has as of late written an article on one of Turkey's fascination spots, Bozcaada, naming it as a "mystery Aegean island heaven."

"All that is motivation to visit—and something you can't discover on most Aegean islands — yet two significant draws are wine (which I'll return to) and rich history," Abel's supposition harmony read.

In her segment, Abel worried on Bozcaada's characteristic legacies just as social ones.

"Graves on the island date from 3,000 BC. Throughout the hundreds of years, it was involved by Pelasgians, Phoenicians, Athenians, Greeks, Persians, Alexander the Great, Byzantines, Genoese, Venetians and Ottomans," she composed.

"The most huge section came when the island, at that point known as Tenedos, was referenced a few times in The Iliad. It's only a short good ways from Troy, as in the Trojan War," she included.

Putting accentuation on the copious history of Bozcaada going back to the Trojan War, Abel said the recently opened archeological exhibition hall makes the retreat town progressively "engaging for history sweethearts."

Abel likewise underlined that Bozcaada is a fascination spot to such an extent that about 1.5 million travelers have visited the town last season.

"There are the vivid bars in the town focus, the vineyards over a great part of the open country, and the ravishing sea shores rimmed with mosaics of blue. The water is cold yet hypnotizing to look at. There's a huge, well-protected mansion to visit, an engaging marina and numerous decent places to eat," she said.

"Public activity unfurls in the city. Individuals go through hours drinking tea or possibly wine," she included.

The movement feature writer additionally portrayed Turkish individuals as "the most accommodating individuals on this planet."

Abel had recently written two increasingly Turkish retreat towns, Muğla's Bodrum and Izmir's Alaçatı.

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Ayvalik, bringing together the two sides of the Aegean will stage a solidarity event

Ayvalik, bringing together the two sides of the Aegean will stage a solidarity event

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Ayvalik at the weekend, bringing together the two sides of the Aegean will stage a solidarity event. Lesvos and Ayvalik cooks, gourmets will meet.

Festival starts on Friday night until Sunday night. What I have in the program? Music, food, dance entertainment. Of course, most importantly, friendship ... Activities Aegean culture, tastes and everyone's invited curious.

Ayvalik, olives, olive oil, sea, the thousand and one varieties of herbs and multicultural structure is one of the rare corners of the country. Escape from the stifling atmosphere of the cities who want to take a breath, and various snack you drink pure pleasure to swim in the imagination of those who took shelter in a corner of paradise for those who want to do.

Ayvalik, opens up the horizon in recent years, the activities held in the neighboring Greek islands, the friendship between two sides, gives a new dimension of cooperation.

Last year's festival, which is a village in the island of Lesbos Agiasos'tan delegations participated. This meeting aims to become acquainted with the peoples of the two countries was so much fun, however, another group this year as the island of Lesbos, "We are coming," he said.hürriyet