Evliya Çelebi Way
Evliya Çelebi - follows the path as a long-distance hiking and cultural route the traces of the Turkish Ottoman writer Evliya Çelebi, who in 1671 passed through on his way to Mecca the northwest of present-day Turkey. Evliya Çelebi has traveled to the Ottoman Empire and neighboring regions in more than 40 years and left to posterity a ten -volume work on his adventures in foreign lands, the Seyahatname ( Travelogue ).
Itinerary
Evliya Çelebi - the - road runs over 600 km through the north-west Turkey and aimed at both hikers and cyclists and horse riders. The start is located in the village near the town of Hersek Altınova on the southern coast of the Gulf of İzmit and follows Evliya's pilgrimage on Iznik, Yenişehir İnegöl, Kütahya ( the city of his ancestors ), Afyonkarahisar, Usak and Eski Gediz after Simav. The metropolitan area of Istanbul, from where he started in 1671, is shunned by the way due to heavy industrialization and colonization.
Evliya Çelebi - The pathway was committed in the fall of 2009 during a six-week exploratory tour by a group of Turkish and British scientists and authors for the first time. In the summer of 2010, the exact course of hiking and biking route has been set. The inauguration took place in 2011 proclaimed by the UNESCO Evliya Çelebi - year in honor of his 400th birthday. A guide to the route is published in English and Turkish and contains practical advice on using the path information on the architecture and history as well as Evliya's descriptions of places in his time.
The Culture Routes in Turkey
Evliya Çelebi - The - Way is one of the recently founded cultural routes in Turkey. As the first long distance hiking trail marked Turkey the Lycian Way developed since its foundation in 1999 to one of the most popular cultural and hiking routes in Europe. Since the early noughties, a variety of other ways originated in Turkey, which can be explored on foot, by bicycle or on horseback. The roads designated as cultural routes follow ancient trade routes, or are based on traces of famous travelers. Thus, for example, the Sultan's Trail in the Thracian part of Turkey, the first section of a 2,100 km route from Istanbul to Vienna that traces a 141 -day military expedition of Sultan Süleyman in 1529. The Paulusweg, which runs a few kilometers east of Antalya, 500 km Total distance to Eğirdir Lake and on to the ancient Antioch, follows the path of the Apostle Paul. The routes have been developed with the aim of promoting the cultural heritage of Turkey trekkers and other Wegnutzern "in passing " accessible. The Association, founded in 2012, the cultural routes in Turkey is a non-profit organization in which the founders of the routes have teamed up with local tour operators, board operators and other partners. The aim of the association is the way to develop in a sustainable tourism, and to preserve the routes for future generations.