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mindcrime Says: Eskisehir is famous for the meerschaum (luletasi in Turkish)We visited Atlihan because it houses many stores that sell local crafts, wooden ones, glass ones but mainly from meerschaum. Atlihan was once an Ottoman Inn (back in the middle of 19th century) with the typical...
mosques and churches at Odunpazari
mindcrime Says: While still walking around Odunpazari we had already checked the restored houses, we had seen the museums, we had visited the local stores for hand made crafts. And then? Then we started walking around, enjoying the old streets and houses and we saw many small mosques but...
mindcrime Says: What a nice surprise! Karikatur muzesi is a small museum dedicated to comics! As all the museums of Odunpazari district, it is housed at a restored building from the early 20th century. In the 2 story building that covers 265sq meters you can also see how a typical house of...
Cumhuriyet Tarihi Muzesi (History of the Rebublic)
mindcrime Says: This is a small museum dedicated to the History of Turkish Republic. It is housed at a restored building at Odunpazari which is actually one of the oldest buildings (from 1916, built by architect Turan) that once belonged to the army but opened as a museum to the public in...
mindcrime Says: Cagdas Cam Sanatlari Muzesi is a small but nice Contemporary Glass Art Museum. It is located at Odunpazari at one of the old wooden buildings (pic 1) that now look so attractive after the restoration. It also has a beautiful central yard (pic 2). The items are nice, there...
mindcrime Says: Great place! We spent almost half day at Odunpazari, walking around and checking the architecture but also some nice small museums and we also did a bit of shopping (there are some great stores for souvenirs and local crafts) After a great renovation project you can walk at...
mindcrime Says: Except the main mosque at the city center we didn’t impressed by other mosques. Most of them were small ones serving the local neighborhoods but with no interest for the visitor (simple mosques like the one at pic 1). One of my favorites though was the one you see on pic 2,...
mindcrime Says: This was a big mosque that we found at the city center. The big square in front of it was full of people praying on Friday although it was peaceful the other day. What’s more near the mosque you can see some impressive structures, full compositions of statues (pic 4). Pic 1...
mindcrime Says: The mayor of Eskisehir has made great job in Eskisehir, no surprise the people love him and have only good things to say about him. Even people in Ankara were talking about how beautiful Eskisehir looks because of him. The city is also clean, the prices are low and you have...
mindcrime Says: One of the main roads in Eskisehir is Porsuk Bulvari. It runs along Porsuk river and its always busy with people because it houses numerous stores and a lot of cafes. We passed by many times but the most interesting thing was that in every corner there is a sculpture! It was...
mindcrime Says: The second thing we noticed in Eskisehir after seeing the river was that the city is full of sculptures and statues! So many of them, it was a great surprise and I had many photo opportunities as we walked through out the city center checking the numerous figures, animals...
mindcrime Says: This small river that divides the city in 2 is so cute and picturesque, I believe this is the main reason the city looks so nice to me! We spent a lot of time walking around the river, the locals do the same anyway walking around and fill the dozens of cafes near the...
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1 Review and 21 Opinions The freight trains keep rolling on through, rumbling (tolerable) and blasting their horns...
Kirim cig borek: Fantastic "cig borek"!
CA_Fruitfly Says: This little off-the-beaten track location is so worth the excursion from the city center. It's a brisk 5-minute walk from the bus station. They serve a lovely light version of the local specialty, a fried pastry called "cig borek". The price is very reasonable and service is...
mindcrime Says: This is a colorful café, with many comfortable places to sit and relax. I took the picture in the morning because there was low light during the evening when we visited the place. Locals were chatting loudly while we were enjoying our last moments in the city before...
mindcrime Says: The city is compact, and actually divided in 2 parts, the modern and the old. You can easily walk in both of them.But there are also some useful tram lines(pic 1) local buses (pic 2), dolmus and taxis (pic 3). We didn’t use any of them as we stayed only for 2 days and we...
mindcrime Says: Eskisehir stands at the crossroad of railways between Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.We used train from Istanbul and we arrived in Eskisehir after 4,5hours. The trip was comfortable, with a new train but kind of boring. When we left the city for Ankara we used train again, this...
desserts, bread and dry fruits!: desserts, bread and dry fruits!
mindcrime Says: Oh god! In every corner we made a stop to buy something to eat! There was no need for snacks like chips in Eskisehir, we were just entering a store and we tasted delicious bites of baklava, then at another place we tasted the local halva, met halva is very popular here (they...
Atlihan: meerschaum at Atlihan
mindcrime Says: At Atlihan which is at Odunpazari we found all the souvenirs/gift stores together! The place is obviously restored and looks very nice with a great central yard.There are some stores that sell cheap souvenirs but also some stores that are specialized on things from...
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Phrygians entered Anatolia and built their own cities on the ruins of the Hittites around 1200 BC. They set up a kingdom with its capital at Gordion, ankara. Kingdom extented in thewest from Eskisehir to Sivas, inthe east across the Kizilirmak river territory.
Herodot has referred to Phrygians as the oldest group of thr world and has told about their relations with Egyptians.
In various places in Anatolia, especially in the city of Midas (The most famous Phrygian king),Gordion, at Pazarli tombs covered by large mound of earth(tumuli) and monumentsengraved on rocks with richly ornamanted facades were found.Besiedes their achivements in facade architecture, they were especially good at metal works.
Phrygians have covered the underground tombs by large amounts of earth and formed tumuli. In the many tumuli excavated in Gordion, one of them included a wooden tomb where the bodywas buried and the sides of the tomb were filled with stones.
Other worth to see places are monument of Arezastis, Gerdek kaya, Doganli Kale etc.
Updated May 24, 2010
Gifts made of Lule Tasi.It's a...
Arkeolog Says: Gifts made of Lule Tasi.It's a kind of soft, white stone. There are variety of shapes but the most famous is Ottoman head. Visiting a meerschaum atelier and watching how easy to shape a meerschaum piece
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Our plan was to travel directly from Istanbul to Ankara but then we started to think about a city in between to stay for a day and Eskisehir seemed ideal for a weekend trip. It’s modern town in NW...
An Education and Railway city in Central Turkey
The mid size and cute town wth Porsuk river in Central Turkey has 2 major Universityes one Anadolu University other Osmangazi University and famous with special figurines pipes and objects made by...
Eski=Old and Sehir=City in Turkish. Eskisehir is located at the western part of Central Anatolia. The city famous for its restored historical houses, River Porsuk, canals, bridges and meerschaum...
Unfortunately , in this destinations list , there is no Kutahya , Cavdarhisar . Then , i show this beautiful place in Eskisehir which is not so far away from Kutahya : AIZANOI .
var site="sm4yakacik" Yesss I was there years ago 1st time in 1960 when my brother was there on his military service then for business purposes years after. Eskisehir is an industrially...
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