TOURISTS and expats will be spoilt for choice this weekend (May 6-7) with two Aegean festivals being held. Food Festival; Selçuk Selçuk, the town nearest Ephesus, will be hosting a new and different festival. Called the “Kantaron Festival”, it seeks to celebrate the natural flavours of the Aegean region. The festival will promote Selçuk’s natural…
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If Kayakoy is the abandoned village that Fethiye never lost, then the Aegean tourist town of Didim has the ghostly, albeit largely forgotten offering of Eski Doğanbey. Nestled silently, but imperiously in its own state of tumbledown elegance, the beautiful village of stone houses is tucked away on the southern hillsides of the Dilek Peninsula…
Read MoreA MILAS real estate agent has claimed that he has detected the buried treasure from the fabled city of Troy – with reserve estimates totaling $500 billion Tuncer Rifat Barin says he has seen X-rays from digs in the area that seem to shed light on the 3,200 year mystery. However, archaeological experts have poured…
Read MoreA PROMISED Maths and philosophy afternoon researching the influence of Thales will be held in the ancient ruins of Miletus on Saturday September 24. The event is is being backed by Didim Belediye, Didim Tourism Infrastructure Services Union (DİTAB), the Association of Tourism Research (TURAD), Turkish Mathematical Society (TMD) and Didim Tourism Association (Ditu). Beginning…
Read MoreArchaeologists this week discovered women’s jewelry, believed to be 2,500-year-old, during ongoing excavations in Milas, just an hour from Didim. According to Anadolu News Agency, Milas Archaeology Museum Directorate teams came across a historical tomb, which was said to contain bones belonging to a woman. During the excavation, the teams found two gold earrings, decorated…
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THE history of the ancient city of Ephesus stretches back 8,000 years ago, but the discovery of an amulet shows that it is at least one millennium older, the Daily Hurriyet has reported. An amulet figure that has been unearthed during excavations at the Çukuriçi mound in Ephesus has revealed the ancient city is actually…
Read MoreTHE shepherd Endimo recited by Homer can be considered from Didim. The mythology has it Endimo lived on Mount Latmos (today Beşparmak) by Lake Bafa.
Read MoreFormer Didim resident and writer Inka Piegsa-Quischotte, reflects on an often overlooked local historical site. LESS popular with tourists than nearby Ephesus, the ancient site of Miletos, equally important and brimming with historic monuments, can be visited in peace and leisure.
Read MoreEXCAVATIONS around the Hecatomnus Mausoleum in Milas district have unearthed a written stela that dates back over 2,000 years.
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