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Ideal for:
Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5
Key features:
Our Turkey tour is all inclusive. Top Tip:
The Grand Mosque - Built at the end of the 14th century, the Ulu Cami is an interesting example of the period before the classical Ottoman architecture.
Our Turkey tour is all inclusive. Top Tip:
The Grand Mosque - Built at the end of the 14th century, the Ulu Cami is an interesting example of the period before the classical Ottoman architecture.
School & College Tours to Turkey
This fantastic tour of Asia Minor explores the striking contrasts between old and new, modern and traditional in a wonderfully diverse country. The ancient sights, museums, churches, palaces, mosques and bazaars, together with the sights of natural beauty are inexhaustible. There is a diverse ethnicity that makes up the people of Turkey and give it its unique cultural richness. The sights are wondrous, the welcome is warm and the food delicious. This tour will be a memorable one for all school groups.
Top 5 Turkey Excursions
- Topkapi Palace - Built in 1453 by Fatih Sultan Mehmet, the Palace was used as the Ottoman residence for almost 400 years.
- Hippodrome - Where the chariot races and competitive athletic events took place during Roman times.
- Grand Bazaar - Visit the famous Grand Bazaar, one of the world's biggest covered markets. Here you will find exotic spices, jewelery, ceramics, carpets, etc.
- Gallipoli - The Gallipoli Peninsula was the scene of one of the most notorious military campaigns of World War I.
- Troy - Immortalised by Homer's Illiad. According to the Illiad this is the town of Illium where the battle of Troy took place during the 1200s BC, with Agamemnon, Achilles, Odysseus, Patroclus and Nestor on the Greek side and Priam, Hector and Paris on the Trojan side. You can see a replica of the famous wooden horse.
