If you are visiting the coastal resorts in summer you will need light, casual clothing. You may need a raincoat while visiting the Black Sea coasts.
In inland Turkey you will be at higher altitudes so you had better take some warm sweaters for cool evenings and nights.
If you are visiting inland Turkey in winter you will certainly need woolens and winter coat. In the coastal regions or in Istanbul during winter you may pack slightly warmer clothes but a raincoat is a must.
In spring and autumn the coastal areas are warmer so you may take with you what the season requires. You may take your swimming suits too, since you may encounter some unseasonably beautiful temperatures. At higher altitudes you may need some woolens for evenings. if you are intending to visit the marvelous mosques of Turkey, there is an essential item for . ladies to take; a head scarf. While visiting a mosque it is required that the ladies should wear a scarf covering their hair. (more…)
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The Temple of Artemis (Artemision) - A column and scanty fragments strewn on the ground are all that remains of the Seventh Wonder of the World. According to Strabo, the Temple of Artemis was destroyed at least seven times and rebuilt just as many times. Archaeological findings instead attest to at least four rebuilding of this temple, starting in the 7th century B.C. . Chersiphone and Metagene erected an Ionic dipteral temple in the 6th century B.C. and its building required was set on fire by Herostratus; the successive majestic structure, built entirely of marble, was begun in 334 and was finished in 250 B.C. : it aroused the admiration of even Alexander the Great who would have liked to have taken charge - at his own expense - of the continuation of the work.