Uludag Ski Center-Bursa

Uludag, is one of the Turkey’s favorite winter sports centers and as well as skiing, its richness of flora and fauna has made it into a National Park. Uludag was previously known as Olympos Misios in ancient times, and is known in mythology as the place where the gods watched the Trojan war.

This center has suitable conditions for Alpine skiing, ski touring, cross-country and heli-skiing. Uludag Ski Center is equipped with 1 cable car, 5 chairlifts and 7 T bars. Qualified skiing instructors and equipment for hire are available. The center has first aid facilities and a rural clinic.

Uludag is located in the South Marmara Region in Uludag National Park. It is 36 km from Bursa, and 150 km from Istanbul.

 Museum of Anatolian Civilizations-Ankara

The Anatolian Civilizations Museum is located in the district called Atpazari,("the horse market") to the south of Ankara Castle. The Museum occupies two Ottoman buildings which have been renovated and altered to suit their new role. One of them is the Mahmut Pasha Bedesten and the other is the Kursunlu Han.It is believed that the Bedesten (part of a bazaar where valuable goods were stored) was built between 1464 and 1471 by Mahmut Pasha,the grand vizier of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror.There isno inscription on the building. Documentry sources,however, indicated that Ankara "sof" (cloth made from goat or camel hair) was distributed from here. The building has a plan of standard type. There is a covered rectengular area with 10 domes in the middle.There is a surrounding vaulted arcade, occupied by shops arranged so that those of the,same trade face each other.

 Mevlana Museum-Konya

The Mevlana Museum (Mevlana Müzesi), also known as the Green Mausoleum or Green Dome, is the original tekke or lodge of the Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes, a mystical Sufi Muslim group. It containes the tomb and shrine of the 13th-century Mevlana, or Rumi, which remains a place of pilgrimage.Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi (1207-1273), also spelled Celaleddin Rumi and later given the honorary title of Mevlana ("our master"), was the greatest Sufi mystic and Persian-language poet, famous for his lyrics and for his didactic epic Masnavi-ye Ma'navi (“Spiritual Couplets”), which widely influenced Muslim mystical thought and literature. Rumi's influence on Turkish cultural life was highly significant.

 Ayasophia Museum-Istanbul

It is located between two wall suports at the southern part of Ayasophia. It is an interesting product of Turkish construction and decorative arts. It was built by Sultan Mahmud I in 1739. The library consists of a reading room, the room where the books were kept under protection (hazine-i kütüb) and a corridor between these two sections. Reading room is separated from the main space of Ayasophia with a glass partion born by six colons with diamond shaped capitals and covered with a bronze mesh. The double doors of the entrance are also covered with a bronze mesh decorated with flowers and scrolling branches and has two handles engraved with "Ya Fettah". The walls of the reading room are decorated with tiles and calligraphic friezes. On the wall opposite to the door, there is the porphyry monogram of Sultan Mahmud I, bordered with green tiles.

 Topkapi Palace Museum-Istanbul

It is located on the promontory of the historical peninsula in istanbul which overlooks both the Marmara Sea and the Bosphorus. The walls enclosing the palace grounds, the main gate on the land side and the first buildings were constructed during the time of Fatih Sultan Mehmet (the Conqueror) (1451 - 81).The palace has taken its present layout with the addition of new structures in the later centuries. Topkapi Palace was the official residence of the Ottoman Sultans, starting with Fatih Sultan Mehmet until 1856, when Abdülmecid moved to the Dolmabahçe palace, functioned as the administrative center of the state. The Enderun section also gained importance as a school.