Harran
The beehive houses of Harran
Drive to Harran and see its strange and typical houses shaped like ant hills.
Culture and history
Called "the cradle of Civilisations" the eastern anatolian plateau is the native earth of many populations as well as their battle fields: in this lands Hattis, Hittites, Phrygians, Galates, Romans, Byzantines, Seldjuks and Ottomans fought each in turn, to establish their domination.
Turkey is one of the rare countries in the world offering such a density of historic sites. Prestigious or anonymous, they present harmoniously a subtle mixture of historic and biblical past; mystical and ethnic cultures. A voyage through the time…
Harran is set on the ruins of the old Carrhes, city where Abraham established his family.