Discover Adana
Adana is unique with its geography, the Taurus Mountains that surround it, Çukurova that makes it rich, the rivers that spread abundance, the plateaus that protect it from the heat, and its delicious tastes.
Adana is unique with its geography, the Taurus Mountains that surround it, Çukurova that makes it rich, the rivers that spread abundance, the plateaus that protect it from the heat, and its delicious tastes.
World's Oldest Bridge Still Used-Historical Stone Bridge
This thesis, which makes Adana Taşköprü 3500 years old, may be correct in my opinion. But let's say it's not true, even the latest date of its construction (4th century A.D.) makes Taşköprü 1700 years old and makes the bridge "the oldest bridge in the world still in use".
But there is a truth that Taşköprü, which brings together the two sides of the Seyhan River in the middle of Adana, is one of the longest living bridges in the world. Maybe he's the longest living.
If you want, let's get rid of the surreal narratives of legends and look for Adana's Taşköprü among the documents of historical science.
MAYBE 3500 YEARS OLD
There are different opinions about the construction date of the bridge…
This thesis, which makes Adana Taşköprü 3500 years old, may be correct in my opinion. But let's say it's not true, even the latest date of its construction (4th century A.D.) makes Taşköprü 1700 years old and makes the bridge "the oldest bridge in the world still in use".
Taurus Mountains, Çukurova Center of the World-1 (Fertile Crescent And Third Delta)
The subject of our subject, the Taurus Mountains, is first and foremost a cult center. Its inseparable part, its component Çukurova, and the shores of Çukurova are the scene of natural phenomena that were formed millions of years ago and that still remain unsolved.
Until now, according to the scientific findings and evidence, people in search of the celestial archetype used to attribute sacred meanings to high mountains. Thus, they were looking for answers to the questions about the "center of the world/universe" or "where the door to the sky was", which they sought answers to, by looking at the high mountain/mountains they considered sacred. According to them, the center of the earth and the gate of the sky were in the cosmic region at the top of the mountain, right next to them.
(Fruitable - Fertile - Crescent is the world's first agricultural areas)
Today, the excavations of Göbekli Tepe and Tatarlı Hüyük are such as to break the heart of mankind. The findings show that this region was once America and Europe. One leg of the Fertile Crescent is in the northeast of the Middle East, in Mesopotamia (1st Delta), and the other leg is in the Nile delta (2nd Delta) in Egypt, in the southwest of the Middle East,
Çukurova and the Taurus Mountains (3rd Delta) are located on the northwest arc of the Fertile Crescent. In this case, we think there is no harm in calling Mesopotamia the 1st Delta, Egypt/Nile the 2nd Delta, and Çukurova the 3rd Delta in the civilization adventure of mankind. When the subject is approached from 10-12 thousand years ago with scientific data, it is seen that Çukurova is one of the three important deltas in the Middle East.
At the same time, the world's oldest open-air museum that combines culture and history, HISTORICAL TEPEBAĞ MILL WITH 10-12 THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY, THE OLDEST MANSION IN THE WORLD- 600-Year-old RAMAZANOĞLU MANSION, – ULU MOSQUE – ATATÜRK's HOUSE and Adana's ARKEOLOGY-MOSAIC-COINS-AGRICULTURE-CITY-GIFT GOODS TURKEY's largest museum and Cinema Museum awaits its visitors.
Archeology in the first place –2. IN STEP 2, MOSAIC and COIN sections have been opened.3. At this stage, the AGRICULTURAL AND GIFT SECTIONS will be completed within 2 years.
The 1-year Museum Card, which is valid in every museum in Turkey, is 30 TL for students and 70 TL for civilians. Civilian single entry to the museum is 10 TL, students are 5 TL.
In addition to its rich cuisine, you will not be able to get enough of Adana flavors with its world-famous delicious Adana Kebab, turnip juice and bici bicisi, especially in summer.
Adana's Firsts
A) When it comes to Anatolian history, there is a misconception that it started with the Hellenistic period. In fact, it is thought that the world civilization started with the Greeks for some reason… If we reduce the subject to the world of medicine, we can see the reflection of this assumption there. There is always a belief that the history of medicine in the world began with Hippocrates, on whose behalf doctors took an oath.
However, when we examine the history of world civilization closely, we see that there is a 4000-year-old Hatti-Hittite Civilization of a civilization two thousand years older than the Hellenistic period in Anatolia.
B) The Vatican of 4000 Years Ago
Archaeological researches in Çorum Hattuşaş and Çukurova reveal the importance of this civilization, as well as a kingdom in the Adana-Hatay-Mersin-Osmaniye region (which we call Çukurova today), called the Kizzuwatna Kingdom, which took place as a federative kingdom within the Hittite Empire. . The Kizzuwatna Kingdom is a kingdom without an army like the Vatican today. Even in those years when brute strength was paramount, it was respected by other federal kingdoms and central empires, which had no armies. The reason for this respect is; The kingdom is ruled by priests, each of whom is a doctor (healer). These priests made medicine from plant and animal (especially bird) meat and cured diseases.
they were finding. And from all over the world of that time, many patients were coming to Adana to be treated by these priests.
Priests, who were also doctors, ruled the Kizzuwatna Kingdom.
C) First Health Tourists Came to Adana
Written evidence found shows that the Hittite Emperor Muvattalli and his son Urhiteşup came to Adana for treatment. These documents are the oldest documents describing traveling for health. Based on this, we can say that the first health tourism movement in history was born in Adana. In fact, the Egyptian Pharaoh of the same period, Ramses II, also wished healing from the priests of Kizzuwatna. Adana, which has such an old medical tradition, continued its importance in medicine and health in the following years.
D) History's First Hospital Opened in Adana...
E) First Organ Transplant Performed in Adana
In the following years, Hippocrates took notes about the patients he followed and ensured that these notes were passed on to his next students. Scientists consider this behavior the birth of scientific medicine. One of the hospitals and medical schools opened by Hippocrates, considered the beginning of scientific medicine, was in Adana's current Yumurtalık district (500 BC).
F) Ayas in History
We know that there are three of these schools, called Aueskulapion, in Anatolia, and the other two, apart from Yumurtalık, are in Kos Island, the hometown of Hippocrates, and in Bergama. The fact that one of the historical names of Yumurtalık, the name of Hippocrates' mother, is Hygea (the word hygiene comes from here), can be considered as one of the signs of the first hospital in Adana. And the legend is that the first organ transplant was performed in the Auesculapion of the Ovary.
G) The World's Oldest Medical Book Written in Adana
The world's oldest medicine and pharmacy book that has survived to this day was also written in Adana. This book belongs to Dioskorides, who was a physician in Anavarza, an important city of Çukurova at that time, exactly 2000 years ago.
H) Materia Medica
This book, which was written in three volumes, is called Materia Medica, one volume of which talks about minerals, one volume about bird and animal meats, another volume about medicines obtained from plants and flowers. Moreover, some of the formulas written in the book are still used as therapeutics by the local villagers.
Lokman Hekim
I) Lokman Hekim
One of the reasons why Çukurova has such a medical tradition is that the region (especially the Taurus Mountains) has the richest plant diversity in the world. This rich diversity of plants must have influenced the medical development so much that the Legend of Lokman, who is told that he found a cure for death by talking with plants in the region, is told. According to the legend, Lokman Hekim; He found a cure for death by learning the language of plants, but while passing over Misis, one of the historical bridges of Adana, he lost his secret by dropping the notes he had taken as a result of a wind blown by Gabriel Aleyselam into the Ceyhan River.
İ) Misis Bridge
In fact, we can think that Lokman Hekim is the legendary version of the Adana physicians who have been operating in Çukurova for thousands of years.
J) World Health Base
If we take a look at Adana's current medical activities, we can see the Adana State Hospital as the oldest hospital still operating.
After the Republic, its name was changed to the State Hospital. In recent years, our city has made new breakthroughs in the field of health, as it has been in history, and has embraced many world-class hospitals and health units. Adana is now a health center where many patients from all over Turkey and the world come and where the latest medical technology is applied, as in its history.
FAITH TOURISM.
After the Republic, its name was changed to the State Hospital. In recent years, our city has made new breakthroughs in the field of health, as it has been in history, and has embraced many world-class hospitals and health units. Adana is now a health center where many patients from all over Turkey and the world come and where the latest medical technology is applied, as in its history.
14-15-16 March Health Festival –27 March- 30 March Sabancı International Theater Festival
April 4-10 Photography Festival
International Orange Blossom Carnival April 5–6-7. Turkey's first and only street carnival.
There is a joyful street carnival in Adana that brings everyone together, accompanied by the scent of orange flowers blooming in April when the weather is at its best: the International Orange Blossom Carnival...
Sabancı International Theater Festival
Since 1998, many foreign and local theater companies have been performing their plays within the framework of the Sabancı International Theater Festival for State Theaters, organized every year in cooperation with the Sabancı Foundation, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the State Theaters.
The plays performed during the festival, which is the only international festival that is held every year and lasts for 1 month, are close to 20,000.
theater lovers. While the plays in the festival program were only performed in Adana until 2005, some of these plays have been staged at the Sabancı University Performance Center in Istanbul since 2005.
It starts in March.
International Air Games Festival
Adana International Air Games Festival, dated 18-19-20 May 2012, is the first festival in Turkey in the category of very light powered aircraft.
International Coffeefest in May
Adana Kahvefest is a festival that brings together the consumers with interactive workshops, seminars, acoustic concerts, exhibitions and many interesting events.
Rock Festival in May
The rock wind continues on the fertile lands.
watermelon festival on June 21
International Disabled Youth Festival
It is an event that is held in Adana every year with guests from various countries of the world and is the scene of colorful images.
International Dance Sports Festival in September
The festival takes place in a social environment where those who do not know how to dance but want to watch and learn can participate.
17 September Golden Boll Film Festival
The International Adana Film Festival, also known as Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, is an international film festival held every year in Adana, Turkey.
International Flavor Festival in 6-7-8 October
Adana Taste Festival will introduce the “most” local and “most” traditional cuisine culture of Adana to the world.
International Dance Sports Festival in October
The WDSF WORLD OPEN LATIN competition, organized by the International Latin and Standard Dances TURKISH CHAMPIONSHIP and WORLD DANCE SPORT FEDERATION (WORLD DANCE SPORTS FEDERATION) on 10-11-12 OCTOBER, and where the world's best dancers from 22 different countries compete, is held in ADANA every year without any interruption.
The festival takes place in a social environment where those who do not know how to dance but want to watch and learn can participate.
Extreme Sports To Be Done This Year For The First Time In Adana's Districts In October.
Surrounded by Niğde in the Northwest, Kayseri in the Northeast and Adana in the South, Demirkazık is perhaps one of the most magnificent peaks of the Central Taurus Mountains. This region of the Aladaglar has a rich diversity in terms of vegetation (vegetation is Alpine) and animal varieties, so a part of the mountain of 54,524 hectares was declared a national park in 1995. Demirkazık and Çukurbağ neighborhoods (village) in the northeast of Demirkazık, which are the settlements that contribute to the regional tourism of the Demirkazık region. Rafting -Treking–Off Road-Cycling
There are many valleys and peaks for climbers and trekkers. These are Kızılkaya (3771 m), Demirkazık (3756 m), Kaldı (3734 m), Emler (3723 m), Eznevit (3560 m), Karasay (3550 m), Direktaş (3470 m), Küçük Demirkazık (3425 m), respectively. Güzeller (3461 m) and Alaca (3588 m). We can list the valleys Emli valley, Karayalak valley, Cımbar valley, Narpuz valley.
Aladağlar section of Taurus Mountains gave way to Hittite Mountain Road 4000 years ago.
In this context, can one pass without mentioning the bird sanctuaries in Çukurova? Every year, bird migrations from Africa, Çukurova to Asia, to Europe happen without writing stories about how the birds germinate in Anatolia, where the pollen brought from Ethiopia, Mauritania, from anywhere in the continental depths is scattered, and its origins and homeland. does it? Can the mystery and mysteries of the Anatolian diagonal (Anatolian Çatalı) be passed without examining it? What connotations does the Anatolian diagonal cause in stories to be written about the region?
Migrant birds, their homeland, the places they visit and roam around are explained in relation to the center in question, but how can the immigrants coming to the region from many parts of the world and the places they come from are not explained? Can it be missed that countless stories (stories brought by immigration) with sociological depths in each ethnic group are waiting to be written?
Anavarza (Anazarbos) Castle. Anazarbos was given city status in 19 BC by Octavian Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire.
Anavarza did not show a great presence during the first 2 centuries of the Roman Empire, and remained in the shadow of Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia. Increasingly stronger in the Roman period and M.S. At the end of the 2nd century, Anavarza, which was in competition with Tarsus, the giant city of the ancient world, for the leadership of the Cilician Union, was made one of the most important metropolises of Anatolia by increasing its status from this date on. The city, which sided with Severus during the power war of Septimius Severus, one of the Roman emperors, with Pescennius Niger, was rewarded after Severus defeated Niger in Isos in 194 and became the sole ruler of the empire, and started to experience the brightest period of its history. M.S. In 204-205, it became the metropolis of the states of Anavarza, Isauria and Likaonia. Anavarza, M.S.3. In the 19th century, it gained the title of "Metropolis" and received the title of "Neokoros" 3 times until the middle of the same century, by obtaining many military privileges.
December International World Latin Dance Festival (WDSF )
12 December International Kebab-Turnip Festival
It takes place every year around the Historic WINNERS and BIG TIME.
All institutions, we continued on our way without any loss of FAITH for the promotion and development of Adana. You can be sure that we will continue to accelerate our work even more. Many valuable special works will be revealed in a very short time ( small medical museum in Adana - restoration of Ilhan and Turhan Selcuk houses - Writers' house, construction of the statue of Halet Çambel - ADANA will be established in the future, BEYKOZ KUNDURA FACTORY in the movie studios (Wolves Valley Ambush-Fetih) 1453-Back streets etc. were shot in these studios) as well as HOLLYWOOD film studios are planned to be established. (Cukobirlik building or a place by the lake is considered.) All destinations for historical and cultural tours are prepared by ALTINORAN association ADANA -St.PAUL'S CHURCH - TAŞKÖPRÜ, which connects the SEYHAN and YÜREĞİR sides on the Seyhan river, is the oldest bridge in the world still in use. One of the oldest mansions in the world, Ramazanoğlu mansion, St.PAUL''s CHURCH, TAŞKUYU CAVE -St.PAUL's house -Seven Sleepers -BOLKAR mountains –KARAGÖL World' 's endemic QUIET Taurus frogs (Rana Holtzi)– BARBOĞAZI ski track- VARDA bridge- KAPIKAYA canyon -KADINCIK dam-SAİMBEYLİ butterfly valley-TOPRAKKAKLE-YILANKALE -KARATEPE– ANAVARZA –KOZAN (SIS) castle–ARIKAN endemic flowers –TORA city (lokman physician story) YUMURTALIK lagoon, 8th Wonder of the World MIRROR LAKE cave (Gilindire) etc.
BEIRUT -CYPRUS - IRAN -IRAQ-JORDAN country guests started to visit Adana as of September 2018. We believe that an operation that will last a lifetime has begun.
Also, in 2019, our LEBANON-BEIRUT TOURISM, CULTURE, HISTORY, HEALTH, OFFICIAL MARRIAGE, SHOPPING programs have started. The goal is to mutually increase friendship and trade between the two countries.
Our promotions of Adana-Tarsus-Mersin-Cappadocia continue in all written and visual media (in countries such as LEBANON-JORDAN-KUWAIT-UAE-QATAR-IRAN-IRAQ). Website writers-tv and agency owners, officials, agency bloggers have hosted in Adana, and Adana-Tarsus-Mersin-Cappadocia was promoted to the whole world via the official website of the Governorship, TRT-MTV Lebanon TV.
Lebanese airlines have started flights 3 days a week (45 minutes) and allow the freedom to travel for 90 days without the need for a visa.
Sports competitions -art events -music festivals-
Beirut American University of Technology and Adana Çukurova University were recognized by YÖK as sister universities.
Firsts are being made in terms of tourism in Adana, and all Adana –Tarsus –Mersin tradesmen were able to breathe thanks to Tourism.
In 2019, SPECIAL WEBSITE studies that will introduce Adana, Tarsus, Mersin, Cappadocia and the whole world have started to be published. www.altinrota.org
Our beautiful Adana is loved by our guests with the support we have given to art, history, culture and sports, and we, as tourism professionals, feel that it will achieve the fullness and quality we want as soon as possible.
Places to Visit
You can find out the distance of the places you want to go from our hotel.
Place
by vehicle
Walk
Ziyapasa
50 meters
50 meters
courthouse
1.6 km
510 Meters
New Courthouse
5.1 Km
5.1 Km
Central Mosque
2.5 km
1.14 km
Archeology Museum
1.50 km
984 meters
Adana Museum Complex
2.5 km
2.3 km
Central Park
1.70 km
1.15 km
Ataturk Park
1.9 km
722 meters
Haci Omer Sabanci Cultural Center
1.6 km
842 meters
Optimum Mall
2.2 km
1.71 km
M1 AVM
9.8 km
9.8 km
Park Adana AVM
2.8 km
2.6 km
Main 01 AVM
2.7 km
2.5 km
Stone bridge
1.9 km
1.22 km
Big time
1.14 km
1.14 km
January 5th Square
602 Meters
602 Meters
Seyhan Cultural Center
1.1 Km
316 Meters
January 5 Stadium
2 km
1.8 km
Adana Koza Stadium
11.5 km
10.8 Km
Adana Metropolitan Municipality
2 km
1.5 Km
Seyhan Municipality
0.3 km
250 meters
Little Clock
290 meters
290 meters
Catalan Bridge
11 km
10 km
Cukurova University
9.7 km
9.7 km
University of Science and Technology
15.8 km
13.3 km
Balcali Hospital
10 km
9 km
Acıbadem Hospital
2.4 Km
2.3 km
Ortapedia Hospital
2.4 Km
2.3 km
Private Adana Hospital
2 km
1.4 km
Adana Seyhan State Hospital
3.4 km
2.9 km
Seyhan Tax Office
100 meter
70 meters
Adana Land Registry Office
100 meter
70 meters
Theme park
8.7 km
8.5 Km
Adnan Menderes Entrance
7.6 km
7 km
Marina
11 km
10.1 Km
Seyhan Police Department
1.3 km
1.2 Km
Station
2.2 km
1.8 km
bus station
5.9 km
5.9 km
Yuregir Bus Station
3.1 km
2.7 km
Hippodrome
9 km
9 km
SOURCE:DR.HALUK UYGUR / RAMADA HOTEL & SUITES BY WYNDHAM ADANA